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MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has been given the all-clear to race in the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend.
Dani Pedrosa will miss the Jerez MotoGP race as he does not feel ready to return to action following the surgery he underwent earlier this month.
Honda MotoGP team manager Livio Suppo is expecting both Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa to be fit to race in this weekend's event at Jerez.
ARCA to IndyCar, Marquez to Mick Schumacher.
Marc Marquez's participation in the next MotoGP race at Jerez is in doubt after the Repsol Honda rider broke his little finger in a dirt bike accident.
The Kymi Ring, a new circuit under construction in Finland, plans to host a round of MotoGP from 2017 onwards, having reportedly struck a deal with series promoter Dorna Sports.
After his latest success in Argentina, Valentino Rossi is within striking distance of Giacomo Agostini's all-time MotoGP win record. Jamie Klein investigates how likely it is to be surpassed.
World champion Marc Marquez says it was a "privilege" to fight with Valentino Rossi during the MotoGP race in Argentina, despite crashing out.
Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa says his rehabilitation is progressing well, but the Spaniard has called for patience.
Valentino Rossi won for the 71st time in MotoGP this past weekend.
The legendary Valentino Rossi won a dramatic race to score his second victory of 2015 and stretch his championship advantage, as Marc Marquez crashed out during battle for the lead.
Dovizioso, sixth, will start from row 2 for the Argentina Grand Prix.
Marc Marquez was back to his dominant self in qualifying for the MotoGP race in Argentina, the factory Honda rider sealing his second pole position of the year.
Reigning champion Marc Marquez jumped into top spot in third practice at Termas de Rio Hondo, ahead of fellow Honda rider Cal Crutchlow and Suzuki's Aleix Espargaro.
Aleix Espargaro once again lead the field in second practice at Termas de Rio Hondo aboard the works Suzuki, ahead of Ducati's Andrea Iannone and Honda's Marc Marquez.
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Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new edition contains an introductory essay outlining the argument of the dialogue as a whole and Plato's arguments about rhetoric and eros in particular. The Introduction also considers Plato's style and offers an account of the reception of the dialogue from its composition to the twentieth century. A new Greek text of the dialogue is accompanied by a select textual apparatus. The greater part of the book consists of a Commentary, which elucidates the text and makes clear how Plato achieves his philosophical and literary objectives. Primarily intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of ancient Greek literature and philosophy, it will also benefit scholars who want an up-to-date account of how to understand the text, argument, style and background of the work.
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Effect of radiation damping on the spectral response of plasmonic components |
Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 22, pp. 21748-21753 (2011)
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We explore the relationship between the near-field enhancement, absorption, and scattering spectra of localized plasmonic elements. A simple oscillator model including both internal and radiative damping is developed, and is shown to accurately capture the near- and far-field spectral features of linear optical antennas, including their phase response. At wavelengths away from the interband transitions of the metal, we expect the absorption of a plasmonic element to be red-shifted relative to the scattering, and the near-field to be red-shifted relative to both.
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(230.4910) Optical devices : Oscillators
(250.5403) Optoelectronics : Plasmonics
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Optics at Surfaces
Original Manuscript: September 20, 2011
Revised Manuscript: October 2, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: October 2, 2011
Published: October 19, 2011
Mikhail A. Kats, Nanfang Yu, Patrice Genevet, Zeno Gaburro, and Federico Capasso, "Effect of radiation damping on the spectral response of plasmonic components," Opt. Express 19, 21748-21753 (2011)
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Release Date: 2001
Conducted by William Stromberg
Performed by
The Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Format: CD
Best of 2001: Best Re-Recording
1. | Main Title | 1:50 |
2. | Ship at Sea | 0:57 |
3. | In Dakang | 1:25 |
4. | Runaway Blues | 1:39 |
5. | Fire! | 2:34 |
6. | An Offer of Help | 4:16 |
7. | Memories | 2:11 |
8. | Chinese Chatter | 4:05 |
9. | Forgotten Island | 4:14 |
10. | Quicksand - Little Kong | 3:57 |
11. | The Styracosaur | 0:46 |
12. | The Black Bear | 2:41 |
13. | Finger Fixings | 3:31 |
14. | Campfire at Night | 3:24 |
15. | The Old Temple | 2:21 |
16. | Johny Get Your Gun | 0:34 |
17. | Finale | 4:59 |
18. | Main Title | 1:34 |
19. | The Wreck | 1:17 |
20. | The Approach | 2:24 |
21. | Russian Waltz | 1:40 |
22. | Incidental Music | 0:46 |
23. | Agitato | 2:23 |
24. | The Iron Door | 2:57 |
25. | Night | 1:04 |
26. | The Count Approaches | 2:20 |
27. | Misterioso Dramatico | 3:57 |
28. | The Chase | 4:43 |
29. | The Chase Continues | 0:55 |
30. | The Waterfall | 2:23 |
31. | The Fight | 1:27 |
32. | Escape - Finale | 2:00 |
Total Album Time: | 77:14 |
by Dan Goldwasser on June 23rd, 2001 |
King Kong is without a doubt a classic film, with an equally classic and celebrated film score by Max Steiner. When William Stromberg and John Morgan set out to re-record the complete score to King Kong a few years ago, the result was an excellent recording that blew me away. So imagine my excitement when I heard that there was a new album out of their reconstruction of The Son of Kong, the not-so successful sequel to King Kong (in fact, done the same year) as well as the classic film version of The Most Dangerous Game.
The Son of Kong plays off the success of its predecessor, and the score reflects that by quoting bits and pieces from the original score. The main three-note Kong theme is evident, as well as some new themes for his 12-foot son. Some of the cues contain more tribal ethnic themes, such as "In Dakang" and others contain a lighter more upbeat jazzy theme, heard in the "Main Title" and "Memories" (but a bit slower). It's thematic and smooth, and contrasts well with the more dramatic action cues that Steiner does so well. "Fire!", "The Styracosaur" and "The Black Bear" all feature classic Steiner action cues, and the tension really heats up. As with most of Steiner's score from King Kong, there are lots of bold brass moments interweaved with more satiny string work. The "Finale" is a tender cue which reprises the main jazzy theme, and ends the film on a softer note, which is a relief considering the heavy action we've been put through!
Also included on this album is the score to The Most Dangerous Game, a film adaptation of the classic short story about a deranged hunter who lures shipwreck survivors to his castle, and then gives them a chance at freedom if they can survive his hunt. Filmed just before King Kong, not only were many of the jungle sets reused in both Kong fims, but some of Steiner's action cue structure bled over in to King Kong. The "Main Title" is dramatic, and contains the main theme from the film, a ten-note fanfare that shows up throughout the score. This theme also showed up in the film as source music, as heard in "Russian Waltz". It's a simple yet memorable theme, and works not for the theme itself, but for the variations and orchestrations in the score. There are dramatic chase cues ("The Chase", "The Chase Continues") where the orchestra goes off, but keeps the main theme in mind. While there are some short tender moments between the two leads (Fay Wray and Joel McCrea) in the film, the score never really underscores those feelings. Instead, there is always a sense of dread, and the film comes to an exciting climax at the end, with the main theme triumphantly restated.
As with the King Kong album, a lot of time and effort went into the reconstruction of these two Steiner scores, and it truly shows. The timing and performance by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra is dead-on. I would rank this up there with Monstrous Movie Music as some of the best re-recording work I've heard in a long time. While I wasn't very familiar with these two scores before getting the album, I don't think that should matter when deciding whether or not to get it. With a running time of almost 77-minutes, and a 35-page booklet filled with valuable and insightful information, you really can't go wrong. I can only wait with anticipation to see what Stromberg and Morgan have next on their plate.
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Shawn Smith wrote:1. Is there a way to change this behavior so that the contained object's equals is being used?
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'Queen' teaser: Too much information? Kangana Ranaut asks for honeymoon tips
December 9, 2013
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Rajkummar excited to work with 'Ragini MMS' director, again
November 27, 2013
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Rajkumar to team up with Hansal Mehta for 'City Lights'?
November 4, 2013
Mumbai: Rajkumar Yadav, who played the title role in Hansal Mehtadirected biopic 'Shahid', may team up with the filmmaker again for 'City Lights'. "The film may go on the floors by the first week of December. I don't know exactly who will be directing the film as Ajay Bahl is not...
New releases 'Boss', 'Shahid' enjoy good run at the box office
October 21, 2013
New Delhi: 'Boss' and 'Shahid' have been received well at the box office the former raked in over Rs.45 crore in the first five days while the latter, a medium budget biopic, has recovered money by earning Rs.2.05 crore in three days. Director Anthony D'Souza's "Boss", which stars Akshay...
'Shahid' makes Shahid Azmi's brother emotional
October 19, 2013
Mumbai: Khalid Azmi became emotional after watching a latest screening of Hindi film 'Shahid', based on the life of his brother, slain lawyer and human rights activist Shahid Azmi. Khalid saw the movie here Friday. "Our family has gone through a lot. It's a very emotional moment for us. I have watched...
Shahid: Being a biopic and other confusing ideas
October 19, 2013
New Delhi: How would you define an authentic biopic? This is a question which has been bothering me for many months now. With each new film based on facts and real people's lives, we get into the debate about their authenticity and the constructed reality they portray, at least try...
'Shahid' review: A brave, unflinching and one of the strongest films
October 18, 2013
Cast: Rajkumar Yadav, Prabhleen Sandhu, Kay Kay Menon, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Zeeshan Ayyub Director: Hansal Mehta "By subjecting me to injustice, the Lord taught me the importance of fairness. By throwing pain, humiliation, and torture my way, he taught me to be strong." It is with these words, spoken in a voiceover by...
e lounge: Story of 'Shahid' is very inspirational, says Hansal Mehta
October 18, 2013
Director of upcoming Bollywood film 'Shahid', Hansal Mehta said, "We make films on all these icons, who we know a lot about, but these unsung heroes and their stories are very important in today's life." ...
'Shahid' Tweet Review: First day, first show
October 18, 2013
New Delhi: Rajkumar Yadav displayed his acting potential in Dibakar Banerjee's 'LSD' and through films such as 'Shaitaan', 'Kai Po Che' and 'Talaash', he has emerged as a powerful character actor. Now, he is going to be seen in director Hansal Mehta's 'Shahid', which is based on the controversial story...
Shahid: Hansal Mehta wants road named after Shahid Azmi
October 17, 2013
New Delhi: Hansal Mehta is keen that a road in Mumbai should be named after slain human rights activist and lawyer Shahid Azmi, whose life's story has inspired the director's movie 'Shahid', releasing Friday. Azmi was killed in 2010 in Mumbai. Mehta might request the state government to rename a road at...
'Shahid' has all the ingredients of a complete film: Rajkumar Yadav
October 17, 2013
New Delhi: Slowly and steadily, Rajkumar Yadav has made a place for himself in the Hindi film industry. Through films such as 'LSD', 'Ragini MMS', 'Shaitaan' and 'Kai Po Che', he has emerged as someone who can mould himself as per the director's requirements. He is now coming up with...
'Shahid' is story of an underdog's fight against injustice: Director
October 16, 2013
Mumbai: Director Hansal Mehta, whose upcoming film 'Shahid', based on the reallife story of slain lawyer Shahid Azmi, wants a street in the city to be named after him. "Shahid is a story of an underdog's fight against injustice and there are many Shahids not just in Mumbai, but across India...
I owe everything to my lack of success: Hansal Mehta
October 16, 2013
New Delhi: After a selfimposed exile, Hansal Mehta is back to filmmaking with 'Shahid', a biopic on the life of slain human rights activist and lawyer Shahid Azmi, which has restored his faith in storytelling. Starting his career with 'Jayate', Mehta went on to make films like 'Dil Pe Mat...
Nude scene in 'Shahid' was my idea: Rajkumar Yadav
October 15, 2013
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We need more lawyers like Shahid Azmi: Hansal Mehta
October 14, 2013
Mumbai: Director Hansal Mehta, who is looking forward to the release of his film 'Shahid' based on the life of advocate Shahid Azmi, feels the society needs more people like the slain lawyer. 'Shahid' is a reallife story of Mumbaibased lawyer Shahid Azmi, who was murdered in his office in...
Rajkumar Yadav's 'Shahid' to be converted into novel
October 12, 2013
Mumbai: Filmmaker Hansal Mehta's 'Shahid', which has got a thumbs up from the critics and has been appreciated at film festivals, will now be converted into a novel. 'Shahid', starring Rajkumar Yadav in the lead role, is coming out Oct 18. It tells the story of lawyer and activist Shahid Azmi...
Not comfortable with frontal nudity: Rajkumar Yadav
October 8, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Raj Kumar, who will be seen nude in 'Shahid', is not comfortable with frontal nudity but says he doesn't want to limit himself. "I can't limit myself but I am not comfortable doing frontal nudity," Raj Kumar told IANS. Directed by Hansal Mehta, 'Shahid' features Raj Kumar as lawyer and...
Hansal Mehta's past inspires 'Shahid' movie poster
October 7, 2013
Mumbai: The poster of upcoming film 'Shahid' shows actor Rajkumar Yadav, who plays the role of slain lawyer Shahid Azmi, with a blackened face, an incident that director Hansal Mehta suffered in real life. The poster is inspired from a scene in the film which shows Shahid Azmi being...
Perception of industry towards me has changed: Rajkumar
October 6, 2013
Mumbai: He began his journey in the industry with 'Love, Sex Aur Dhoka' and went on to do films like 'Ragini MMS' and 'Shaitan', but actor Rajkumar feels popularity came his way only after the success of 'Kai Po Che'. The actor says the film by Abhishek Kapoor changed the...
Excited about film with Ajay Bahl: Rajkumar Yadav
October 5, 2013
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Censor Board orders change in 'Shahid' dialogue
September 26, 2013
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March 11, 2013
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March 1, 2013
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February 28, 2013
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February 26, 2013
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Reunited Kingdom
- This page should be merged with Two Kingdoms.
At the end of the Second Age, Elendil and his sons established two great kingdoms in Middle-earth: Arnor in the north and Gondor in the south. These Kingdoms of the Dúnedain were united under a single High King, Elendil himself, who ruled the North-kingdom while his sons reigned jointly over the South-kingdom of Gondor. In the first years of the Third Age, this union failed. After the loss of Isildur at the Disaster of the Gladden Fields, his nephew Meneldil took up the kingship of Gondor, and that country remained independent from the North-kingdom through most of the Third Age.
In the north, the realm of Arnor fell into troubled times. It broke into three separate kingdoms, and in time these too were lost, so that the Dúnedain of the North-kingdom of Elendil were reduced to a wandering people led by a Chieftain. Nonetheless, they were able to maintain Isildur's line in unbroken descent, while the Kings failed in Gondor, and its rule was taken up by the Stewards.
There were two attempts to reunite the kingdoms. The first of these occurred in III 1944, when Arvedui of Arthedain claimed the High Kingship of the Two Kingdoms. His claim was rejected by Steward Pelendur and the Council of Gondor, who elected to maintain their independence. More than a thousand years later, after the War of the Ring, Arvedui's direct descendant Aragorn came forward to make the same claim. This time, the people of Gondor accepted a High King, and the Two Kingdoms were reunited at last.
Like his ancestor Elendil before him, Aragorn took up his rule from the North-kingdom, but he travelled throughout his wide lands. The Shire was an exception to this, and though it lay within the Reunited Kingdom, Aragorn made a law that Men should not enter it, a law that he observed himself. Though his seat was in the north, Minas Tirith and the South-kingdom remained important, to the extent that he travelled there at the end of his life, and his tomb was among the Houses of the Dead beneath Mount Mindolluin. After Aragorn's death, his son Eldarion took up the High Kingship, and the Reunited Kingdom endured for many years under the new King and his descendants.


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your thoughts please. Playing as co-headline in Phx, who will close???
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
your thoughts please. Playing as co-headline in Phx, who will close???
Bon Iver
...but who will put on a better show?
This ain't no middle of the mall shit.
Fleet Foxes by a beard.
Coachella - 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
SS Coachella - 2012
where's the 'both suck' option?
I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member...
I caught Fleet Foxes at ACL this last weekend and found their performance to be incredibly boring. maybe it was just a bad show but they certainly didn't live up to everything i had been hearing about them.
May 1 - Sleep
May 8-10 - Austin Psych Fest
May 15-17 - Psycho California
June 6 - The Rolling Stones
June 10 - Melvins
June 20 - Blur
June 24-28 - Glastonbury
July 18 - Death Grips?
July 26 - Faith No More
September 25 - Kraftwerk
I love Bon Iver. Fleet Foxes on paper has a lot of things I should like, but for some reason I just don't enjoy their music. Also I find their constant spamming of "oooh" grating.
I do like the song Mykonos though.
This is a complicated decision. I find myself listening to Bon Iver more altogether although my favorite song from both of their discographies comes from Fleet Foxes (Blue Ridge Mountains).
I'm going with Bon Iver.
I prefer Bon Iver on albums, but have yet to see them in concert. Fleet Foxes show in 2009 on the Outdoor was amazing though.
Fri: Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, Explosions In the Sky, M83, Amon Tobin, the Rapture, GIRLS, Frank Ocean, Yuck, Neon Indian, Breakbot, WU LYF, Other Lives, EMA
Sat: Radiohead, Bon Iver, Andrew Bird, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, SBTRKT, Sub Focus, Flying Lotus, Destroyer, the Head & the Heart, tUnE-yArDs, Gary Clark Jr., Dragonette
Sun: Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, At the Drive-In, Justice, Beirut, the Weeknd, DJ Shadow, Santigold, Gotye, Real Estate, Le Butcherettes, Metronomy
Don't care for Bon Iver in the slightest. Liked the first Fleet Foxes album and their Glasto set.


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I just had my first race of the year. It was an inauspicious lead up, as I took most of last week off from training with a nasty virus, and then took Tuesday off of both training and teaching to stay home with a sick child. This pushed my first track workout to Wednesday, only two days before my first race. I have been trying to get away from 400s on the track – I have found that I am getting better and better at doing 400 meter repeats as time goes on but that my performance in these workouts is less and less connected to my racing. So I did three times (200/200/800) with (200/200/400) recovery. The 200s were all 33 and 34. The 800s were 2:25, 2:26, 2:27, as steadily increasing effort levels. This is fairly fast for a skier (or a 38-year-old teacher) but not promising.
I was still very sore when I was warming up for the NHTI Delta Dental 5 km. This is the fourth time I have run the race in five years, and the third course (they have a nice trail that is always underwater in the spring, so they usually have to adjust).
We started out and I hung back in third, letting Jim Johnson set the pace and a younger runner I don't know chasing right behind him. By half a mile the younger runner took the lead and led us through the mile in 4:50. Way too fast! He faded in the next couple hundred yards and Jim passed him shortly before we crossed the start line and started the second of two laps. I continued to stay behind Jim, occasionally moving back and forth to stay out of the wind but mostly just saving my energy by letting him set pace. At two miles (9:50) he seemed to surge a bit, and I thought he might get away. Then, right around 2.5 miles, he looked back at me, and I knew he was hurting. I made the most decisive move I could, and put a couple seconds on him. There was a fair amount of traffic by now with runners still on their first lap, and I knew this would make it psychologically harder for him to follow me. I didn't have much kick left in the final stretch, but I had a big enough lead that it didn't matter. I crossed the line in 15:26, six seconds up on Johnson and 17 ahead of Patrick Ard in third.
I was a touch faster last year, but I am feeling better about my fitness progression this year. I still have a number of races here before I head to Holland (and I am registered for the Dam tot Damloop 10 miler in September, so look forward to a post about running against 50,000 people!
Running Season
Last Intevals on Upper Osceola
Yesterday I did my final set of skiing intervals, on one of my favorite places for intervals, the Upper Osceola trail at the North End of Waterville Valley. Readers should have three questions about this (listed below in ascending order or relevance):
1. How did the intervals go? Can you give us excruciating detail?
2. Why are you doing ski intervals after all the races are over?
3. What do you mean by final? [You should read this answer.]
And my answers:
1. The intervals were okay. My goal, as it often is, was to go faster each time, and I did that. The snow was wet, dirty, and slow, and I don't know how well I was skiing, so my time for the first intervals was quite slow – 5:51. On the second interval I managed to hold on to V-2 a little better and got to the top in 5:45. Number three was similar, and 5:44. My last interval was definitely the most ragged, with poor technique throughout and a slow start. But I hammered the top just enough to finish in 5:42. From a technique standpoint, it was mediocre at best, but in terms of taxing my energy systems it was a good day.
2. The reason I was doing skate intervals this late in the season is that I decided it was the best way to prepare for running season. With the local track still under 18 inches of snow, and with me having run 7 miles in the last two weeks, trying to do a good workout on foot seemed like a good way to get injured. And yet I didn't want to go a month without any intensity. My first race might be just three weeks away, so this was a great way to remind my body what it is like to go hard without beating up my joints.
3. Ah. The point of this post. I am always surprised to have readers at all, and I am guessing that those who care to check out my posts have read down this far. I am taking another big step in my very slow retirement from ski racing – by moving to Holland. For the next couple of years (at least) my wife and will be teaching at the American School of the Hague. So it will be a long time until my next Eastern Cup race, and perhaps a long time before my next ski race of any kind (though I will be back at Christmas and am likely to jump in some sort of race then – and I might race something in Europe as well). I am scheming a bit about nordic skiing in some of the indoor ski areas in the Netherlands, and I will certainly bring my rollerskis. But even if I do jump in a race here and there, with my on snow time limited to a couple weeks in December, plus a week each in February and April (during our breaks), I won't be keeping my hard-earned ranking as one of America's 20 best distance skiers.
I will (unless the editors of FasterSkier decide otherwise) continue to update this blog. I figure I write more about running than skiing already, so this might not be a big change. So if you are curious about the Netherlands running scene, or advice on where near Leiden to go rollerskiing, or how easy it is to nordic ski at an indoor area, or what family ski vacations look like in the Alps or the mountains of Norway, my blog will hopefully continue to be worth reading.
A Frustrating Final Race
I skied my last race of the season on Saturday. It did not go well.
The last time I raced the Bretton Woods Nordic Marathon, I dropped the second place finisher in the first 5 km. Even though I knew that several Craftsbury Green Team members would be there, along with David Sinclair and a strong college skier contingent, I still let the memory of easy victory allow me to believe I was the favorite.
Unlike the last time I skied this race, there was still a very large group at 5 km. And I (in what is a bit of a theme for this race) was careless, allowing myself to drift back in the group on a big downhill, so that when I major pile-up occurred at the bottom of the hill, I couldn't avoid it. I did managed to bail in such a way that I broke neither my own poles or anyone else's. I stood back up in about 25th place, fought my way toward the front, and then almost crashed again on a sharp left turn — a Dartmouth skier and I both went off the trail to get around the group that had fallen.
At this point, I was sick of other skiers. I worked my way to the front, and on the one solid climb, I pushed at about 95% effort. I anticipated that this would break the field, but all three Green Team members, along with Sinclair and at least one other skier, stuck to me and didn't seem to be in distress. I just didn't have enough in my legs to drop them. As we came down from the top of the course to the lap (a long six kilometers of down and flat with only a couple interruptions of climbing) four or five other skiers caught us. I was not feeling good about my prospects in the race.
I felt a lot worse when we came to the lap and Vermeer and Dougherty switched skis. I had not done my homework, and did not know that this was allowed (another unforced error by me). It quickly became clear that not only were the two of them (plus Sinclair, who did not change skis) double-poling faster and more effectively than I was, but they were doing so on faster skis. The three of them attacked on a downhill just after I took a feed, and I had to go nearly all out to keep them in sight. I fought my way from 9th place to 4th. As we started to climb, I would make time each time we strided, and lose it again on the flats. I managed to get to within about five seconds at one point, and by skiing very aggressively through the rolling section at the top of the course I didn't lose much time.
When, just before the top of the course, I was passed by Jeff Tucker and Vanya Rybkin, I lost motivation. I had used all of my energy to keep in the race until this point, and I just watched as the race unfolded in front of me on the downs, and then as the top skiers went out of sight.
At the time I was frustrated by my poor skis, but this seems silly. Everyone in the race waxed their own skis, so I have no excuse there. And while I was probably the best climber in the field, there were at least half a dozen other skiers who were better on the flats – and this was a very flat course. Maybe on a day where I felt stronger, or different snow, I could have been in the race after 25 km. But the simple fact is, while I have been close to or ahead of Vermeer, Sinclair, and Dougherty on shorter races with more hills, the three of them are clearly better than I am in a race like this.
And as I am not sure I said this very clearly to them at the finish line, I will close this post by offering them congratulations on their well-earned success in this race.
Three Point Three
That was my margin of victory Sunday. I just typed a long race description, which WordPress lost, so I will just say that I was only able to ski faster than Gordon on this course because I have skied that loop hundreds of times, including over a dozen races and dozens of intervals, over than past 32 winters. I guess I should clarify that the race was a Holderness, about 15 minutes from where I now live.
I got one split, about 1.5 km from the finish. I was told I had "a couple second lead." I wasn't sure how accurate this was, but I pushed harder than I thought I would be able to all the way to the line. Without the extra motivation of believing it really was a close race, I don't know that I would have finished that well. And if I really had a lead at 1.5 km then Gordon also skied a really strong finish, because I was pretty impressed with the way I climbed the last couple of hills.
Anyway, this is probably my last USSA scored race of the season, so it was nice to end on a strong note. One or two more races and then I can focus on just enjoying the snow, which hopefully will stay around for a long time.
I raced two SuperTour races this past weekend, and had by some measures my best result since my "retirement" 9 years ago.
Saturday was a 10 km freestyle, and was a combined Eastern Cup/EISA College Race/SuperTour with 214 racers on the start list. I was in the second seed group, which started after the first seed, so if anyone had been giving me splits this would have been an advantage (but no one was…) I started very aggressively, attacking the first kilometer of the course and catching my 15 second man by the two km mark. I passed a couple of others who had started just in front of me as well, and caught my 30 second man near the lap. I drafted him for a bit, then took the lead again. He stuck right on me, and I was unable to generate the same power and speed I had on the first lap. Still, we worked well together. He pushed me hard up Screaming Mimi (the big hill at the end of the Craftsbury course) and then passed me, and I worked to hang on to him…he was spent as we crossed the lower stadium with only a couple hundred meters to go, and I thought I could get around him, but he crossed the line about a second before I did (for a race time 28 seconds slower).
I received no information on course, so while I knew from how I skied relative to those around me that it had been solid, I had to look at results to discover that I was 11th place, 1:35 behind my brother, 31 seconds off of Lex Treinen in third, and 19 seconds out of sixth place (and thus a cash prize). I was behind only five college skiers (four Americans and one Canadian).
This result is comparable to what I earned in the same 10 km skate race a year ago, and I followed that with a very disappointing 20 km classic, so I really didn't know what to expect on day 2. It was cold with fresh snow, so I felt comfortable waxing my own skis – a newer pair of Salomons (three or four years old now) with a fairly recent (in terms of number of races) LS1 grind, and a mix of Swix BD4 and Toko LF red. For kick I started with Rode Multigrade Blue, buried a layer of Swix Extra Blue, and then covered with two partial layers of Swix VR30. My skis felt fast, with good but not perfect kick; I was feeling good and I wanted skis that needed a real racer to make them work.
The start of the race was refreshingly calm. The front two rows were all experienced skiers who had no need to take an early lead when all that meant was the chance to plow the tracks for everyone behind. I was in the lane behind Eric Packer, and after he made clear that he could have taken the lead, he pulled up, and I was able to follow him into a good early position.
Silas Talbot of Dartmouth was the only skier interested in pulling us around, so we settled in behind him. I was mostly able to hold on to fourth or fifth place, and so save the energy of slowing down or speeding up too much as the pack went up and down hills. Not much happened in the first lap and a half…there was some scrambling on some of the climbs, but I was able to cover all the moves without losing position or tiring myself too much.
Around the middle of the second lap I found myself at the front of the group. It wasn't a conscious effort, but we were starting to climb so being in front wasn't a detriment, and I skied at a solid pace. On the rolling section in the middle of the biggest climb, my brother asked me to let him by. I moved left, let him slip past, and then, the next skier in line having let a gap open, I slotted myself back in behind him. Kris attacked, and only one of the Green Team was able to go with him. At the top of Screaming Mimi Kris had only a few seconds on us, and next to nothing on his closest pursuer, but by the lap just one kilometer later he had a solid 15 second lead.
I fought for position in the chase group. With Kris gone it was clear that no one in the group was too much stronger than me, but I tried not to worry about finishing position and just tried to ski smart. I failed at that a bit going up the sprint hill, opening up a gap that was a little too big to be just relaxed skiing but far too small to be of any use. Still, I figured it was safe to keep the lead on the downhill, so I was still right at the front as we started climbing with 2.5 km to go.
The pace steadily increased as we climbed, and I could see a couple skiers getting away from me. I tried to pull them in on the descent before Screaming Mimi, but they had a length or two at the bottom and it was all I could do to hold position as we made the final climb. By the top Gordon Vermeer and Lex Treinen were clearly dropping me, and my connection to Eric Packer and Frederic Touchette was tenuous. Somehow I held on for the very small final descent and then put everything I had into the last few hundred meters. I couldn't catch Packer but Touchette was behind me with 200 to go, then 100 to go, and even at 50 to go. I honestly had a hard time believing I had out-double-poled anyone at the finish, but I came across in fifth place, earning money in a FIS race for the first time since the 50 km national championship in 2006 (another race my brother won, and I would put up money we are the only two racers who finished both of those events).
The joy of my good race was somewhat dampened when I was accosted by two of the APU racers who accused me of … actually it is hard to say what they were accusing me of. They wouldn't say directly, just that they used to respect me and now didn't. What I could piece together from what they said to other people at the race is that they thought I was intentionally blocking for my brother, and that we had planned his breakaway.
There is video available on FasterSkier, and in particular you can see the top of Screaming Mimi early in Kris's break. I think the video speaks for itself. (Also, there were three lanes on pretty much the whole course. Three.) I did Kris a favor when I let him by me, but that was two seconds out of the race, and the rest of the time I was focused on skiing my own best race.
I was rather annoyed with the accusations, particularly given that they were made almost entirely to people who were neither me nor race officials. But with a little time to reflect, I realize that this is well within the range of how basically good people react to being beaten by a guy who has been retired for nine years. In the unlikely event that I or some other long retired father of two manages to out-ski two different APU skiers on both days of the same weekend, I am guessing the team will respond with far more grace.
I drove up to Craftsbury this morning to race in the 30 km classic mass start SuperTour race. It was a small race – just 33 entrants, but a fairly strong field, headed by my brother.
After two weekends of college racing the start was refreshingly mellow. We went out for a couple kilometers and everything was pretty easy. I had asked Zach Caldwell for skis with killer kick even if it cost me on glide, and he delivered; while I think he was a bit disappointed in the less than perfect glide on my skis, I had incredible kick the whole time, even when my technique went near the end of the race.
But this did put be a little behind the lead group as we started up the hill on Ruthie's. I caught the group remarkably quickly, and was surprised to find myself sitting in 11th place at 6 km, just off the back of the lead group. Over the next 13 kilometers, I pretty much sat in 11th, sometimes in the lead group, sometimes five seconds back. At 19 km I looked ahead and noticed two things: one, my brother was leading for the first time, and two, I could not keep up any more. I was a good 10 seconds off the pack as we came through for the lap at 20 km, and losing ground all the time. I thought I might have a long slog by myself (especially challenging in the light snow that was falling) but Gordon Vermeer fell off the back of the pack a minute later. He had about 15 seconds on me at that point, but over the course of 4 kilometers I slowly caught up to him. I made the decision to lead down Ruthie's as I was a bit worried about my ski speed, and then I let him lead the double-pole section. With a kilometer to go I switched lanes and tried to attack, but nothing happened. I fell in behind him, then had better technique at the top of the last big hill to open a tiny gap. He got me back on the downhill, and then I took the lead on the gradual climb toward the finish. I was still ahead at 100 meters to go, and I really thought I could hold on, but he ended up nipping me by 0.4 seconds.
Anyway, it was a good day for me, just under 2 minutes back from my brother.
More Intervals with Kris
About a year ago I posted about classic intervals up Tripoli Road (pronounced "Triple-Eye" by a majority of locals, in case you are curious), where Kris gave me a 30 second head start and then chased me down. He apparently enjoyed it, so this week we returned and tried it skating.
Last year, as best I can remember, Kris was theoretically in level three for the early parts of his intervals and only hitting race pace late. This year, he was race pace early and above race pace at the end. And whether on not that is true, I am sticking with that story because otherwise I have lost too much fitness in the last 12 months. Last year, I held him off for over 8 minutes each time. This year, he caught be at about 7:15 (6:45 for him) on the first interval, 7:10 on the second, 7:00 on the third, and maybe before 6:00 on the last. I was actually pretty consistent, reaching my stopping point at 7:28, 7:32, 7:38, and 7:45. I might even have been faster on the last one had I not sprinted for 20 seconds trying to keep ahead of Kris, thus completely blowing up.
Anyway, there is a chance my brother is actually in shape this year, and after that workout I am hoping to improve on last weeks results when I take on the College field again this Saturday.
This One's For Paddy
Paddy Caldwell asked me today if I would blog about the weekend's races, so I figured it was time to write something. Apparently I still have fans.
Anyway, I headed up to Rumford yesterday to race in the Bates Carnival. I was the only non-college racer to enter (I believe that between three and six slots are reserved for guest racers), so the majority of the other racers were born while I was in college, and the rest while I was in high school.
Friday was a 20 km classic mass start. An interesting fact that I will note here is that World Cup mass starts feature the third most aggressive fields in the world. Second are Eastern Cups, and first are Eastern college carnival races (World Loppets generally have very wide starts, so at least near the front they aren't bad. SuperTour races are definitely calmer than any of the top three, as are OPA cups and Canadian NorAms.)
What this means is that the experience of starting in the second row of a 100 racer college carnival is not a fun experience for someone with as little starting speed as me (you might suggest that I have had a lot more time to work on this than my competition, and you might be right, but it doesn't change the facts). I was is bib 14, but I was probably in about 40th place at 1.5 km. Once we started climbing it wasn't too hard to get into the top 20, and after the first trip up High School Hill I was near the back of a lead group of 14.
I was feeling pretty good until about 7 km, when a snow squall blew in. It dumped over an inch of snow over the course of the next lap. I had been a little nervous and put one too many layers of wax on, so the fresh powder made my skis painfully, absurdly, and comically slow. The others in the lead group were affected as well, but the slowness of their skis only required two adverbs to properly express it. I found myself falling a little off the back of a pack on nine on the downs, and having to work hard to catch up on the climbs.
Meanwhile, Colin Abbot of Carleton University had the best skis in the bunch, and escaped off the front. Around the time the snow ended, I made a weak attempt at a move around the outside of the group. It didn't accomplish anything, but a couple of skiers decided to attack, including Paddy Caldwell, who bridged the gap to Abbot. Meanwhile, the chase pack started to split up and to drop me.
The third time up High School Hill I was still in contact, and I think even through the stadium I was more or less on the tail end of the chase group. While my skis were never fast (and as my own wax tech I have no one else to blame), they were responsibly for maybe 5-10 of the 60 seconds I lost over the course of the last lap. I crossed the line in 10th.
Saturday was a shorter race (and a shorter description, I promise). I had great skis, as did almost everyone: it's hard to mess up waxing for a skate race on cold, dry snow. I went out very hard on the downhill, and skied pretty effectively on the early hills of the skate loop. I skied deliberately up the early parts of High School Hill, and pushed well over the top, dropping the skiers I had been with. I came into the stadium feeling pretty good until I saw Paddy Caldwell leaving it. I glanced twice at my watch to determine that he had put 36 seconds into me in the first lap.
I was a bit depressed by I kept hammering. According to the official splits I actually slipped a spot during the second lap, but I felt like I was skiing well. I held technique pretty well, and I certainly gave it everything I had. I crossed the line in ninth place, way behind Paddy but only 35 seconds out of second place.
All in all it was a solid weekend of racing. Hopefully next weekend will be even better!
8th on my 38th
Last Sunday I raced the Craftsbury Opener. It was my fifth day on snow – and I actually had a three hour overdistance workout under my belt by then. Plus I even did some good rollerski skate intervals a week and a half before – and two core strength workouts! So with all this training, plus being only 30 seconds behind my brother on Mt Moosilauke I was a bit surprised not to win the race.
Okay, not really. But I was racing on my 38th birthday, making me a solid 15 years ahead of the other contenders (they even started me at the end of the field with the other master skiers), and the training described above shouldn't have me in particularly good shape yet, so I was actually happy. And when I realized – not that I am obsessive or anything – that this would have been about a 92 point result if it was a USSA race, I felt pretty good. Hopefully with a little more training, I can have a solid season of racing against skiers who are less than half my age!
Intervals with Kris
I ran intervals with Kris today. It was a good workout – 6 times 1 mile on the track near my house, in the rain. Kris was taking long (5 minute) recoveries, and while I have not been too focused on running fitness lately, I am still quite fit. Kris's goal was to run 5 times 4:59 and then see what he could do. I acted as pacesetter, and while I was occasionally a second fast or slow on a lap, I brought the first four through exactly on pace, and Kris was on pace for three, but on the fourth he fell behind, finishing in about 5:08. We discussed what to do, and decided that I would pace him for 5:08 on the fifth one. I was right on, and Kris stuck to me like glue. He wanted to do one more – I agreed to pace him halfway. I brought him through 800 meters in 2:34, and then took off, running the next 800 in 2:20. Kris stumbled in not quite 100 meters back in 5:09.
It is a solid workout for him, and I am impressed by his fitness level. I am not confident that I could win an uphill race against him right now (though I would give myself slightly favorable odds). I do take issue with the end of his blog post, however, where he claims that he was the faster runner when we were both skiers. We raced the Tilton-Northfield 5 km three times in this stretch, and I came in ahead twice, and also owned the fastest overall time. And while he defeated me several times in the SoHo 10 km race, I ultimately set the record on that course, putting it so far out of his reach that he hasn't dared even try to beat it. He may be a much faster skier than I am or ever was, but in the totally irrelevant contest for running dominance, he loses by any measure.
Lone Gull 10 km
Five years ago I ran a PR at the Lone Gull 10 km in Gloucester. I matched this time (31:36) three years ago at the James Joyce 10 km. Seventeen years ago, on the Tufts University track, I ran my fastest 10,000 m, in a time of 31:21.
Last year, despite a lackluster season, I went into Lone Gull hoping to set a PR, but missed by about 17 seconds. I knew I was running better this year, but signs were not good. I was on duty in the dorm, so I had to stay up past midnight the night before and then get up at 5:45 AM. Then I was tired and sluggish getting ready, so I didn't arrive with as much time to warm up as I hoped. And then it was noticeably windy (yes, again – other people commented on it too). And while I didn't know this at the start, I had failed to properly tie my shoes so that one would come unlaced with a mile to go in the race.
Even the start of the race was inauspicious. There was some confusion and delay, and then the start was with a police siren, and everyone took an extra second to start because no one realized that we were supposed to go.
For the first mile the substantial wind was at our back. I let the top five go and settled into the front of the chase pack, hitting the first mile in 4:50. I settled in behind a couple other runners for the second mile, as we contended with cross winds, taking the lead only on a very minor uphill. We hit two miles in 10 flat, and I thought about leading again, but the pace picked up and we had a nice group of five (places 7 through 11) go through three miles in 15:02.
At this point there was still a tight pack of five in front, with one runner in no man's land, and then a group of five chasers. I made a decision that I would sit tight as long as I could and then move about a minute before the five mile mark. We cruised through four miles in 20:10. On a slight rolling section someone pushed the pace, I moved toward the front, and then we were four. I settled back in behind, out of the wind.
At 24:00 into the race I went to the left side of the group and attacked. Almost simultaneously – I don't think it was a response – one of the other racers attacked as well. I had more in me, and by the time I passed five miles in 25:09 I was all alone. Around this time I realized that one of my shoes was coming untied. I could not – and cannot – believe I made such an amateur mistake. Still, the shoe was on tightly enough and while I made very slight adjustments to my stride to avoid stepping on my laces and tripping, I mostly just continued.
Ahead of me a couple runners had fallen off the front group and were coming back a little, but I had no hope to catch them. I just focused on running a fast, even pace, and went through six miles in 30:11 and cruised in to finish in seventh place at 31:18. This smashed my PR from age 20 and proved that I still have some very fast races left in me. Suddenly, this whole season seems a lot more successful, and I am excited to take down my five mile PR next summer, and maybe even find a track meet where I can better my 800 m and mile marks which both date from high school.
Racing for Place
I almost called this post Racing in Vermont, but I think what my last two races really have in common is racing for position rather than time. This tends to be hard for me – patience has never been my strong suit, but with practice maybe it can be.
My plan at Race to the Top of Vermont was to hope that Eric Blake was too tired/happy after his solid race to want to race, and then to draft Josh Ferenc for three and a half miles before attacking near the top. The first part worked, but those that clicked on the link above will know that Josh has been prepping for a 59 km race in Columbia and so was unavailable to race up Mt Mansfield. This left me thinking it could be an easy day. Still, I tried to run contained. I sat up the steep first pitch, then made a small move by accelerating on the nearly flat section right afterwards. Only two runners went with me. I didn't make them lead, but I consciously ran hard but controlled on the steeper parts and fast on the flats. By a mile and a half I was all by myself. It was tempting to go after Ferenc's time from two years ago (the second fastest running time, I believe) or at least to try to better my own time from last year. But I was focused on staying consistent and having something to give just in case one of the runners behind me was stronger than I thought.
Thus I arrived at the top four seconds slower than last year, but first by a minute and a half. It was a beautiful day and I jogged on to the actual summit before heading down.
That was over a week ago. Yesterday I raced the GMAA Labor Day 15 km in Burlington. With two sub-2:20 marathoners in the field, I had no aspirations of victory, so I again started conservatively. Five runners were off the front (Ruben Sanca and Nate Jenkins, the aforementioned runners, two Kenyans from my running club, and Ryan Place – though I only learned who he was after seeing the results). It was very windy (I know, I keep writing about the wind, but it is true, very windy this year) and so I had to make a choice between chasing the leaders who took it out in 4:55 and sitting in the chase group at 5:25. I sat in the chase group.
The group swelled to maybe a dozen runners after the first mile, and was still large at two miles (10:46). We went though the 5 km in 16:40 with still a fair number of runners. I am proud to say that at this point I had never shown my face at the front, just letting others do the work. I did lead a bit in the second 5 km, but not a lot and only when running with the wind. By 10 km (33:20) we were a pack of three, and bearing down on my teammate Peter Omae. I started to push the pace here, and we passed and dropped Peter and then it was just me and one other runner. I traded leads with him all the way until 9 miles, when I attacked. I had quite a lot left; I put nine seconds into him in a third of a mile, and he was nearly caught by the two runners behind. I finished in 49:30, meaning that my final 5 km was 16:10, half a minute faster than the previous two. I like to think I could have run maybe 30 seconds faster in different circumstances, but I earned a solid fifth place finish, and I don't think I was strong enough to take the guy in fourth no matter what, so I am calling it a good day of racing.
Cigna 5 km
On Thursday I raced the Cigna Elliot 5 km road race in Manchester NH again. I'm not sure how many times I have raced it, but I have been going since at least 1995, though I missed most of 1998-2005…
Anyway, the race is usually dominated by a literal busload of Ethiopian, Kenyan, and occasionally Moroccan runners based out of New York, but there is still a chance of prize money because they pay $250 to every runner under 14:50. I have done this twice, once by six seconds, once by about half a second. Given my season so far, my early goal of a PR (14:43 or better) seemed like a stretch but I thought I could make some money. There is also a $100 bonus to the fastest NH runner, an honor I have achieved three times.
At the start line it seemed this goal would be easier. There were only four Africans there, two men and two women. Making money by being in the top five seemed possible.
At the gun Abiyot Worku took the early lead, with Brian Harvey (a grad student I have been racing for at least four years) in his draft. And with the strong headwind the draft meant something. Within a few hundred yards I was starting to drift behind them and ended up drafting Abu Kebede. We were losing time on the two leaders but gaining time on the field, as the wind seemed to keep back the usual pack of fast starters.
After leading me for about 500 meters, Kebede suddenly pulled aside and made me lead. At fifty pounds more than Kebede, I imagine I offered him a far better draft that he gave me. I only lasted about 400 meters before asking him to lead again, and I drafted about another 400 meters…just before the mile mark (4:52) he as starting to fade again and I retook the lead.
In retrospect this might have been a mistake, but Harvey had been dropped and as we continued into the wind I thought I was catching him a bit. At about a mile and a quarter there is a sharp left turn out of the wind, and I continued to lead Kebede through this corner, not really gaining on Harvey but not losing anything either.
With the wind no longer an issue there seemed to reason to ask Kebede to lead, and he was content to draft me. We went through two miles in 9:32, and I kept ahead of him down the minor hill at this point.
Over the last mile Kebede seemed to slow a couple times, and I made three separate surges to try to gain a permanent advantage. On the second surge I think I had a very small gap, but he rallied to catch back up and I was unable to shake him.
As we rounded the final turn and approached three miles, I tried very hard to find some sprint in my legs. I wasn't very successful, and with 150 meters to go Kebede easily kicked past me, opening up a gap of two seconds. I finished in 14:57, not quite the time I was hoping for, but solid nonetheless, and I believe 4th place plus first NH finisher is worth four hundred dollars, so it is hard not to be satisfied with the day.
Summer Racing
I guess I have been too busy spending time with my family and sneaking out for the occasional race to keep the blog updated, so I will have to do four race reports in one. A week after Mount Washington I raced the Tilton-Northfield 5 km, winning easily in about 15:40. This is a solid time, but not quite as fast as my best, which has been a theme this summer.
Next up was the Woodstock VT 7.2 miler on the Fourth of July. Again I won comfortably, and again I ran a solid time, 39:26, but well off my best (which is probably in the archives of the blog somewhere, maybe 40 seconds faster).
I didn't race for much of July, with fun obligations on the weekends, but my training was solid: over 80 miles and at least two solid intensity sessions each week. I went into the Yankee Homecoming race in Newburyport thinking I had an outside chance of setting a PR. I ran solid for six or seven miles, battling it out with Brandon Newbould. Around seven miles we caught up with the runner in 3rd place, who had gone out way too fast. We started to gap him, but he rallied and then he and Brandon pulled away from me. They both ran times near my best, and I stumble across the line 30 seconds later in 52:53. Not bad for 10 miles, but not quite what I hoped for.
I had a fourth race in the same vein this weekend. I raced the Bridge of Flowers 10 km for sixth or seventh time. My best time on the course (32:06 – which is quite fast given the huge hill) would have won last year, and I thought I had the fitness to achieve that time. I executed well for the first four miles; I was five seconds behind the two Kenyans who were leading at two miles, I let them open up to about 15 seconds on the first half of the hill, and then I ran hard on the last stretches of the hill and over the top to be within seven seconds at three miles. On the screaming-fast fourth mile I ran around 4:45 to maintain my position, but on mile five I fell apart, running about 5:08 and giving up 20 seconds. I rallied in the last mile, going under five minutes and losing negligible time, but the damage was done and I finished in 32:28, a little over 30 seconds out.
Overall, this seems to be the second-best running season of my life, which is no small feat at age 37. But given how well training has gone, and given how fast I was coming into the season, I am starting to fear that I may never match the running prowess I had three years ago, and that my age is actually becoming a limiting factor in my fitness. In four days I have a 5 km race. We'll see what happens there.
Mount Washington
Yesterday I ran the Mount Washington race for the fifth year in a row. I went in feeling strong; I thought I had a good chance to run my best time ever, possible taking my record from 66:28 to sub-65:00. I also, based on results sheets, thought that I should have the Crossan Cup for the fastest New Hampshire pretty well wrapped up, so that there was no reason not to be bold in going for that record.
The race started well enough. At the start line, the started told us that the race would start with the cannon. Then he paused for a beat, as if he were about to give more instructions–and then the cannon went off. There was an extra jolt of adrenaline as people tried to react, and I found myself leading the race 50 meters in. As we came to the actual climb 100 meters later, I allowed a pack of nine to form ahead of me, and was running at the front of a small chase pack.
I have never been the kind of runner who hits his watch mid-race to collect splits. In most races I can remember them, and in others it doesn't seem to matter, but at Mount Washington I am often curious about my splits but never can keep them straight. But I think my first two miles were a little slower than they should have been. By the one mile mark a few runners had fallen off of the lead pack and I was running in a group of three (fighting for eighth place) and watching 6th and 7th place not so far ahead of me. Not much changed for the next two and a half miles. I went through the halfway point in around 31 minutes, possibly on pace of 65:00 but suddenly feeling very tired. I let the two runners I was with go and suffered for the next mile. At five miles Zach Caldwell gave me a feed. He was helpful and supportive, and the calories definitely helped, because I started running a little better.
Somewhere in there I realized that Brandon Newbould had closed to only about 20 second back from me. My first reaction was despair–I didn't think I had much left. Then I thought I should go hard for a few minutes to bluff. Then I figured he wouldn't even notice, that he just had his head down and was trying to run up the hill, and I did the same.
Around a mile to go–as I often do–I got an extra surge of energy. I was still mostly running away from Brandon but I started catching up to Dan Princic as well. Will less than I minute to go I surged past him. He said "Well played," but didn't otherwise respond. I had to sprint up the final climb (a bit of a contradiction, but extremely painful nonetheless) to make sure I stayed ahead of him. I almost caught the 8th place finisher in the process, but settled for 9th place, in 66:29, one second slower than three years ago.
After the race, with a winter hat, pants, gloves, and three layers on top I started down with Kris (15th, three minutes behind me) to look for our father, who was running his first Mount Washington in 20 years. It was so cold that we ended up huddled out of the wind on some warm rocks. Fortunately he had a good day, finishing in 1:43:00 and first of 33 runners in his age group. As soon as he was past we went back and took shelter in the car.
Race Reports
I have been busy with my daughters over the past couple of weeks, and that doesn't seem likely to change, but I thought I would write a quick update on my racing, at least. Last Sunday, Fathers' Day, I ran the Ribfest 5 Miler in Merrimack, NH. I was hoping to set a PR…which basically means breaking 25 flat (why this is "basically" true is a story for another time). With a very strong field lined up at the start (this was a USATF-NE Grand Prix event) it seemed I was set up to be pulled to a good time.
Unfortunately, the weather had different ideas. After a potentially frantic but remarkably calm 180 degree turn 150 meters into the race, followed by a short climb, we started north on route 3. There was a headwind of at least 10 miles per hour, with stronger gusts. Route 3 is many lanes wide so we were getting the full force of the wind with no trees to mitigate it. The lead group of about 10 runners bunched together, and the first two miles felt remarkably like a bike race, with the stronger runners taking turns pulling at the front. We went through 2 miles in a tight bunch at 10:07. At this point there was a stretch of minor road with little wind and the racing really began. Jeff Viega, Brian Harvey, and Nate Jenkins were quickly off the front and gained 20 seconds on me by mile 3, which I hit in 15:09 in 8th place. Through the fourth mile I passed two runners and gained on 4th and 5th place (while also gapping the rest of the field), but even though it was downhill with the wind I hit 4 miles in 20:14 (perhaps the markers were not perfectly accurate?) I pushed hard to finish in 6th place at 25:09, a very solid effort for me given the conditions and competition.
Since I am blogging, I should mention that I ran the Wachusett Mountain race a couple weeks ago. This was a 5 km up Mt Wachusett followed immediately by a 5 km back down. I went in thinking that based on the names on the result sheet from last year and their times that I had a good chance to win. That was my primary goal, and I figured to achieve this I would need a gap at the top of the course and to run faster than last year's winning time. I managed both secondary goals, holding a 10+ second lead at the top of the climb and then running a series of miles in well under 5 minute pace to finish in 35:43, 7 seconds under last year's winning time. Unfortunately about 500 meters into the downhill Eric MacKnight came flying by me and put 50 seconds on me by the time we were done.
Anyway, two solid races, and I feel good heading into Mount Washington this Saturday. Sometime in the next three weeks I will write the report on that race
Negative Splits of a Level Three Workout
Yes, this is the kind of blog post title that is just begging to be mocked on the next nordic ski humor/satire/news site, but since being mocked on such sites seems to be my niche, I might as well go with it. Anyway, I ran my favorite 4 times 2 miles in level 3-ish workout today. I can never remember my times year to year, and fast times suggest just as much that I was out of level than that I am fit, so it doesn't matter. I do know that I have rarely managed to go faster on the second two intervals than on the first two, no matter how slow I start or fast I finish, so this felt good: 11:45 (up) – 10:55 (down) – 11:27 (up) – 10:45 (down). I was working the downhills a bit more than usual as I will be running the Wachusett Mountain 10 km this weekend: 5 km of 7.5% climb followed by 5 km of 7.5% descent. We'll see how that goes.
Oh–if you've read this far you might want to note that I added a second recipe to that portion of the web page.
Famous! (Or, Somebody actually reads this blog…)
Have to pause and actually make a blog post after reading this article about myself. What I like this the links to five year old blog posts. Somebody has done their homework.
And I must admit, when I am digging deep in level four intervals, I am sometimes in the midst of a comeback and then some that has me contending for the win in a World Cup (though even in these fantasies there are extenuating circumstances like reduced field size and tricky waxing…). And I certainly did enjoy finding my name ahead of Patrick Caldwell's on the results sheet one time this winter. It is not unreasonable to argue that getting beat more than once in a fair race by an 8-years-retired father-of-two schoolteacher should be grounds for getting cut from just about any team…but by that standard there wouldn't be a lot of aspiring skiers left in the East.
Not sure when I next race (definitely have three races coming in June, but May schedule is crazy). This week had two good days on the track: 4 by (2 times 200 (200 rec) at 33, 1 times 800 (400 rec) at 2:20) and three days later five times a mile at 5:15 (actually the last one at 5:12) with one minute recovery between miles. Historically those are solid workouts for me in May. Some level three on the roads is coming soon.
Running Fast
I never reported on the last day of the Craftsbury Spring Tour–I had the fourth fastest split (or fifth if you count Russell Currier, who did not race the tour but jumped in the pursuit and skied to a convincing second). I actually had a good look at second place overall (maybe 20-25 seconds ahead) around 10 km in, and at about that time I briefly held sixth place, but I faded in the first lap and was not able to finish better than seventh. Which still isn't bad for a full-time teacher and father.
I had lower ambitions and expectations for my race this weekend. I have run about 150 miles since January, and the only fast thing I had done since November was five times 150 meter speeds on Saturday, the day before my first race. But my team needed me, so I was on the start line for the An Ras Mor 5 km yesterday morning. I thought that 15:50 was a reasonable, if ambitious goal, and as such I really didn't want to go out faster than 5:05. But at one miles I was 4:59. I thought I was fading a bit in the second mile, but I hit that in 9:58. I couldn't explain why I could still run that fast, but there I was. I was nervous about attacking, even though I was a few seconds from the top 10, but I pushed a little harder than I thought was wise in order to stay in contact. Over the last 500 meters I tried to make a move, but I was swiftly reminded that I might be able to hold an impressive pace, but that developing a kick requires some actual time on the track, and so I coasted across the line in 13th place, 15:28. Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come this running season!
GRP Spring Tour
I am finishing my season once again with the 3 day mini-tour at Craftsbury. It is a nice way to end the season, since it is a race I try really hard in but that many skiers don't seem to care as much about (although I did overhear one Darmouth skier who cares enough to say "I can't believe I got beat by Justin Freeman!"). I was seventh on the first day, in the classic prologue. I followed that up today with 15th in the sprint qualifier (I had a good pair of zero skis–haven't touched them since I put travel wax on 13 months ago) and ended up 17th on the day. I was 1.26 seconds from making it into the semifinals as a lucky loser. I think I could have done it, too, if I had been smarter tactically…
Anyway, unless I miscalculated I will start tomorrow's pursuit in bib 11 and I will be aiming to duplicate last year's top five finish–something I think I can do. We'll see…


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Dog Is Not the Smartest
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Dogs naturally float and many love to swim so the use of a life jacket could possibly cause more harm than good by getting in the way of their natural swim mechanics. Remember, dogs are still beasts of the wild who have been tamed to successfully beg because its a whole lot easier than hunting. Last year my Labrador swam about 4 miles following my kayak without breaking a sweat. In total, I think he swam about 10 miles that day and was still going strong at the end and didn't want to get out of the water. Amazing.
June 13 2013 at 6:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMy 258 pound Saint Bernard would spend 24/7 in the water if you let him. We always make sure he is wearing his life jacket regardless if he is in our pool,the ocean,lake or creek. We never allow him to swim alone,I always swim with him and we are tethered together. He is an amazing swimmer but you can never be to careful. His favorite thing to do is swim about five feet away from me and then swim to me and put his front paws around my neck and give me a big slobbering smooch. My favorite memories.
June 12 2013 at 9:24 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyThat is at the very least, not a full-blood Lab in the video, possibly a mix, I\'ve never seen that coloration in full-blood Lab, and he does have the features of a Lab.
Unfortunately my full-blood, 125lb. Newfoundland Labrador has passed on now. He would bury his muzzle up to his eyeballs when drinking from the water bowl, he loved to drink water. If there was water around deep enough to swim in, he was in it, if it wasn\'t deep enough he would stand in it. He would come to me when called if he was swimming but he was reluctant to do so. He loved snow, was constantly rolling, or digging in it, and he also loved to eat it too. Aside from being an excellent retriever for waterfowl, he was a good rabbit dog too, he wouldn\'t hunt them or chase them, but if you shot one he\'d go get it for you! Jack\'s been gone now for 8 yrs., and I still sorely miss him, he was always waiting at the door when I got home, followed me everywhere, I couldn\'t even go to the bathroom he had to wait outside the door for me. Slept in his bed, right next to mine. We were the best of Pals. Hopefully one day, we\'ll be together again.
You should protect your dog obviously you sensed he would fall into the pool and you did nothing to protect him. What kind of an animal lover are you?
June 12 2013 at 6:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWe had a Black Lab when I was a kid "Omar" would swim every day rain or shine. Such a good dog.
June 12 2013 at 4:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's not a Labrador! If it was you would haver never gotten him out of the water!
June 12 2013 at 4:01 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyLooks like a carmel coated husky/mix to me.
June 12 2013 at 4:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's not a labrador, cause they jump in water and you can't get them out!
June 12 2013 at 4:01 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyPawnatoin needs some staff who are educated about animals .Shows how not to neglect them instead of allowing videos that are a danger to pets.This heavy,older looking dog could have had his lungs filled with water when he fell under water .it is a struggle to get out of a pool even in shallow water. Start putting thing on here to help the well being of animals.Any true animal lover looking at your sight would not like this.
June 12 2013 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyevidently you have never owned a dog that loves water. you sound like a peta member that in the end hurts the animals they claim to love.
June 12 2013 at 6:11 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyNot the dog's fault. Owner should have anti-slip tape around the pool!
June 12 2013 at 3:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI had a dog born in New Mexico, that when visiting WI had never seen a body of water before, and walked straight off the end of a dock into a lake.
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