Anyone race there Saturday?
Anyone race there Saturday?
Word. Team Mojito- 14th overall, 4th in Mixed Open. I opened and closed the race for us with legs 1 and 8. I do not recommend doing that double in the future.
Nice job! 2 tough legs. How are you holding up?
On our first try as Skyliners we took 3rd overall and 1st mens open. I did my first ever leg up there, leg 2. The elevation chart made it look easy but it was anything but. My friends told me that leg 2 is not an easy leg and they were right but I'd have to say that the 2 toughest seem to be 1 and 3 in my opinion.
My club had 6 teams, including the winning mixed open team.
Good day for it. Except for the last couple of legs, the weather was OK. Not quite as nice as last year though.
The depth of the field was certainly hurt by having the USATF Grand Prix 10 Miler the following day.
No easy leg in that race, in my opinion. Even leg 4 has a couple bumps that can hurt you if you were expecting 4 miles of flat. I would agree with your analysis of 1 and 3. Leg 7 looks like no picnic, either.
That was my first go at leg 8. That first hill is 1.25 mi long! Wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't have leg 1 still in the legs. The last 3 miles of leg 1 really stick it in and break it off.
i've run leg 7 a couple years and leg 1 once, and leg 1 is definitely much harder than 7, seven is hilly but it is rolling, and the hills don't take much out of you, but leg 1 is just deathly
I've run leg 2 four or 5 times now. If you run it right (as I did last year), it's a piece of cake. If you run it stupidly (as I did in 2004) it is a death march. Twelve minute difference in my leg times those two years.
The only other leg I have ever run is leg 5 but that's not too hard.
For my money, leg 3 certainly looks the hardest. Start off with the mother of all hills and then it's just up and down all the way to the finish. I cycled the course this year (was injured and couldn't run) and it took everything I had to get my bike up that leg 3 hill. No way I would want to run it.
My club had four teams up there. Our MIXED age 50-59 crew got 3rd place and the coveted Loon mugs.
I did 2 and 8 one year. 6:00's for 2, 7:00's for 8. Ouch. That was not a fun double.
Average_Joe wrote:
My club had 6 teams, including the winning mixed open team.
Good day for it. Except for the last couple of legs, the weather was OK. Not quite as nice as last year though.
The depth of the field was certainly hurt by having the USATF Grand Prix 10 Miler the following day.
Your mixed team is who we battled for 2nd overall. We had 2nd until leg 7 when one of your slim women took the lead from one of our bigger runners who doesn't run well in the heat. Didn't your girl that ran leg 2 also run leg 8? She had the bunny ears? I passed her on leg 2 but she could have been holding back knowing she was anchoring.
What he said wrote:
Your mixed team is who we battled for 2nd overall. We had 2nd until leg 7 when one of your slim women took the lead from one of our bigger runners who doesn't run well in the heat. Didn't your girl that ran leg 2 also run leg 8? She had the bunny ears? I passed her on leg 2 but she could have been holding back knowing she was anchoring.
That was you guys?
Yes, that was Erin. She ran legs 2 and 8 because one of our runners had to drop out with Plantar fasciitis. Actually 3 of our runners (including myself) had to drop out so we scrambled for replacements. Erin was initially going to just run the last leg. She really stepped up.
I felt bad for your leg 7 guy because I've been there as I mentioned above. I don't run well in heat either. For what it's worth, the woman who passed him has a good shot at qualifying for the US Olympic Marathon Trials, if not this year then sometime in the next few years.
Legs 1 and 8?
Right.
You are a candidate for a convalescent home at this point.
Could have been worse: you could have added leg 3 to really make a day of it.
Yikes.
Heh. Last year I did the 11 mile leg 2 for our fast team and then the 10.5 mile leg 5 for a not-so-fast team. The second leg was considerably slower than the first.
Come to think of it, that's probably STILL easier than to 1 and 8 though.
What do the Bunny Ears represent? I remember one of the women's teams wore them last year, too.
"quick as a bunny"?
She is on a Reach the Beach team -- "Bunnies Behaving Badly" in which they all wear them, male and female. So she wears them for Lake Winnie as well. She also wore them for Boston this year. It's just a fun thing.
Shd didn't have any connection to that Lake Winnie bunny team though.
Average Joe and Baystater.... what clubs are you in??
I live in Cambridge, MA and am looking for a club to join. I was a competetive runner in college (800m runner 5 years ago!) and hoping to get back into shape (specifically for a marathon - sub 3:00 is the goal)
I'm in the Somerville Road Runners
As nice it was to be able to take second place, if you want to be humbled, go back in the results a few years. For example in 1996, our second place team would have barely broken the top 30
http://web.archive.org/web/20040117123401/www.coolrunning.com/results/96/nh/winrewd2.htm
That CMS-X team was insanely fast. 5:09 pace over those hills? Oh my. Wonder who was in that lineup.
Reach the Beach has taken some oxygen out of it.
Unfortunately.
Don't hassle me, I'm local.