Ten Years After

Have you seen the latest issue of New England Runner? The cover shot was taken by yours truly. Thanks go out to Bob Fitzgerald for choosing to put it on the front of his magazine.

It was 10 years ago that i appeared on the New England Runner cover from the Les Pawson 5 Miler in Linclon, RI. Funny thing is, i wasn't even going to run that race. During the warmup, Bob Fitzgerald comes over to me and asks what i'm doing here. Seems that he knew that i was entered in the James Joyce Ramble the next day and would have gone head to head with John Barbour for the masters title, we were the two fastest 40+ runners in New England at the time and it would have been a nice showdown. I ended up running second at the Pawson race, 1st Master in 25.50 or something close to that. I never did end up racing against John before going through a number of injuries that kept me off the racing scene for years. I should have gone to the Ramble, but i was also training for a marathon at Vermont City and really wanted the long run on Sunday.