(With apologies to the Bard of Stratford)
Barded
Steeds: Super 5 (2/1/15)
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| Oh, Captains, my Captains (wait wrong poet...) |
Race One:
Super 5
Location:
Cambridge, MA
Goal
Time: ??:??
Actual Time:
36:56
Now is the
winter of my discontent;
Last year
had shone beneath the bright gold sun.
Short pants
did I deem dare to wear back then.
This great
annum no such cold gold was spent.
Championship
Sunday icy frigid
The winds
did blow. Aligned as knights to fight
Against the
sun, Lancastrian hibern
Girds its
shining armor: black steel, rigid.
From past
winters I thus did take the leads
Battling
miles but five; each l’il faster
At end
Catching on Carrie-Anne then Scott
Running as I
was mounted barded steeds.
Ere long, the run n’er fast nor
slow was done
Neither by me the race was lost
nor won.
Lour’d
Clouds: Martha’s Vineyard 20 Miler (2/14/15)
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| Martha's Vineyard - 2014 There was apparently more snow and problems this year so they had to cancel. |
Race Two:
Martha’s Vineyard 20 Miler
Location:
Vineyard Haven, MA
Goal Time:
2:30:00
Actual Time:
--:--
The White
Winter blizzards coldly did blow
Then feet,
now meters, are piled mountain-
Like high. Fuji-esque
mound do climb about
As white
frost falls first once then thrice as snow.
For then the
fourth cold storm came forth aloud
Not hiding
deep among ocean’s bosom.
Instead the
race - twenty long clicks - cancelled.
Again we are
lour’d o’er by winter clouds.
Nat and I
ran: Carriage Road and Comm Ave
Meeting the
girls at Newton Fire House
Then over
Newton hills – marathon pace(?)
Oh times are
slipping down what the legs have.
A long run back along the course
to home
And over the river of frozen
foam.
Average
RunMute (2/18/15)
11 Miles
from Cambridge-Seaport-Cambridge
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| Inman Street, Cambridge |
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| Back Bay from MIT |
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| Esplanade |
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| Boston Common |
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| Snow Farm, Seaport |
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| Skating Rink, Common |
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| Comm Ave |
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| Detour? |
No
Delight: Five Colleges 10 Miler (2/22/15)
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| Finishing under my goal time! |
Race Three:
Five Colleges 10 Miler
Location:
Amherst, MA
Goal Time:
1:10:00
Actual Time:
1:09:19
The race in
Western Mass of No Delight
Away fast from
Amherst High School we dash
Into the rural
fields and roads of snow
Third mile
climb: fifty three meters in height.
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| Appearing distrustful of Tom at Mile One photo by Tom Cole |
Then, across
miles of snow mush and dirt road,
The sixth –
the first to race running hard down
Before it
climbs again – seventh and ninth.
But, the
eighth I get into sprinter mode.
Finally catching
up to Michael Quinn
Passing many
who left me back for dead
Slowing with
miles of muddy roads ahead
The tenth I
dashed with lightning speeds and grins.
Survived I have the winter
months but one;
Man, soon I hope the sun of York will come.
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| photo by Tom Cole |
One From the Vault:
That time Culla let Harrison drive, Martha's Vineyard February, 2014
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| "Now I'm driving the bus!" |
