Danvers 5k

looking for some feedback. Be honest though, I can take it. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

Well if you include Oliver the dog we had “12″ new runners this week. That may be a record, if not then certainly close to it. Throw “5″ Personal Records in there with the 50 runners that made up our field, and you got yourself a pretty good little Wednesday night. 

Special Kudos out to Aaron Toleos this week. He did his first D5K in his new Vibram 5 fingers. They are basically made to mimic barefoot running. Super Cool, look into them.

On a note, I would like to remind everyone that we are still collecting non-perishable food items for the local food bank. This goes a long way for the people who need a little help in these trying times, thank you to everyone for the support.

On yet another note, I am thinking about D5K t-shirts, and wanted some feedback on this weeks imagery as a potential shirt design. So if you are here on Wednesday let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,  adam.

The Motley Crew

When a race involves beer, you know at least a few D5Kers are likely to show up.

And so it was at the Harpoon Brewery 5 Miler on Saturday where Matt Adams, TR Ramsdell, and Christina Nawn took on the odd distance of 5.3 miles (my guess is that the guy measuring the course was sampling the product).

Our crew did great — especially Ramsdell who finished 7/112 in his age group and 119th out of almost 2000 runners. Way to go TR!

Here are the results:

119   7/112  M4049   36:27.0   36:22  6:52 T.R. Ramsdell   46 M
152 106/694  M2139   37:12.2   37:07  7:01 Matt Adams      36 M
608 185/961  F2139   43:18.9   43:13  8:10 Christina Nawn  36 F

Let me know if I missed anyone in the comments.

Aaron

Two big stories at the Hornet Hustle 5k in North Reading today.

First of all, congratulations to Dave Long who won the race AND set a new course record. Great job, Dave!

Second of all, those of you who have been around the D5K for a while will remember Chris Soucy who was a regular for most of last year but pretty much disappeared sometime last fall after the Wicked Half.

Well, I ran this race with Soucy last year (Soucy 20:56, Toleos 20:59), so I looked him up about a week before to make sure he would be there again this year. You see… he beat me by 3 seconds last year and I really wanted the opportunity for a rematch .  I may have even posted a note on his wall in facebook telling him I was going to kick his ass.

Big, big mistake.

Check this out. Soucy pulls off an 18:15 — more than 2 1/2 minutes faster than last year!?!?! WTF?? Give me some of whatever that guy is having.

Here’s how we all finished:

Dave Long  - 17:something

Chris Soucy - 18:15 (unofficial)

Aaron Toleos - 20:59 (unofficial)

Ben Goodhue - 21:15 (unofficial)

Dean Malerba - ???

NOTE: All the times are unofficial because no results have been posted. They apparently had a major malfunction with the chip timing so I don’t even know our places (besides Dave and Chris).

UPDATE - Results are finally up:

1     David Long      25   35  m  17:36:00
4     Chris Soucy     59   26  m  18:14:00
14    Aaron Toleos  146  38  m  20:50:00
18    Ben Goodhue  155  33  m  21:08:00
20    Dean Malerba  152  40  m  21:25:00

Aaron

I pity the fool who doesn’t run the D5K….fool. 

I try each week to come up with some creative way of implementing the D5K logo into some form of random but meaningful imagery. I find it to be very much like the act of running itself, you never know how you’re going to do until you start. Some finishes are better than others, couple that with the commentary, and sometimes it makes me want to move to the country and eat a lot of peaches. That being said, I hope the devoted readers do not mind to much the somewhat odd direction that is sometimes taken. I quote a phrase that is close to me, ” beware the path of commonness, for it yields the most roots” Any trail-runner can attest to the literal interpretation of this quote. 

By the way we had 24 runners this week.

N-joy.