Danvers 5k

Another great evening for a run. With a group of 38 brave souls pushing there bodies around the mean streets of Danvers for the GLORY that is the “D5K”

Kudos out to Crystal Anthony for coming in first overall “again” and setting a new female course record, previously held by: Crystal Anthony. With a time of, 18:27.

Danny Chick was obviously in a teaching mood, schooling almost everybody by being the first male finisher with a time of, 18:46. No wonder Jared hasn’t been back.

We at the “D” welcome the 5 first time runners that joined our ranks.

Rich Horgan – 25:56

Greg Gagnon – 30:15

Kelly Reardon – 30:46

Travis Reardon – 35:42

Jeanne Wral – 36:54

As well, shoes off to this weeks personal record makers.

Matt adams – 20:50

Tim Goulter – 23:54

Greg Lynch – 25:03

Christina Nawn – 25:12

Brooke Drosdowicz – 26:26

Thanks to T.R. Ramsdell again for helping with the “oh-so” glamorous job of handing out the popsicle sticks, and for donating 2 full bags of canned goods for the local food bank. As well as thanks to everyone else who donated some stuff.

Thanks and we will see you all next week. In closing, if you are so inclined to keep reading, I will leave you with a running dream I had. Picture, if you can, yourself running a marathon in the 1940’s in front of the White House. OK? Good. Now picture all the runners in that Marathon, now picture that all those runners in that Marathon “Are You” It’s you, running against hundreds of, you. What would that look like? Of course in dreams we find situations like this to be somehow easily acceptable. Regardless of how slightly off camber they may be with there content. The problem with dreams, is that we cannot visually share them with others, like say we can a photograph, but it would cool if we could. Someday.

maybe today. Click.

I am not a Philosopher, at best, sometimes a drunken savant. Regardless, there is, to me an undeniable purity in the air at this time of year. The feel, the smell, the colors, natures grand finale so to speak. It is a great time to run.

To stay with the word Purity for a moment, I feel running is one of the purest things we as humans can do. It requires no gyms, no equipment, no memberships. I often jump back to the “why” why do we run? I suppose these days we run for our health. Running is good for you, It helps you live longer. Lets take it a step further. Rewind the clocks, oh I don’t know…lets go Paleolithic Era. Humans ran then too. However I suppose they ran for different reasons, or maybe not so different. I suppose they ran for health and to live longer as well, but on more of a predator/prey level. Us humans sometimes being the prey, thus in order to survive we ran, not being eaten by a large animal is great for ones health. So when you find yourself on the wild tundra of modern suburbia, watch out for what lurks behind the local shrubbery, it could just be a sabretooth woodchuck looking for a fast meal. Run…run like your life depends on it, because at one time it did.

Alright, Back to business. A special thanks this week to T.R. Ramsdell for helping out the run and handing out all the popsicle sticks in proper sequential order. D5k Welcomes first time runner Jackie Hutchinson. Jackie ran a 28:59, and did not get lost. Good stuff. Overall winner this week was Crystal Anthony with a time of 18:48. Which is an incredibly impressive time, unless you compare it to her course record setting time last week. We had four personal records this week and they all finished one after another. We will start with Joe Miles with a 20:41, Brian Drozdowicz with a 21:02, Ben Goodhue with a 21:10, and Tim Goulter with a 21:11. Very respectable times.

So thanks to the 42 of you who decided to spend a little time with us Wednesday evening, and keeping with our long tradition of being human and running away from large hairy animals that want to eat us.