Northeast Uphill Mountain Series

The North Face Race to the Top of Vermont

4^th series, race #1

Starting out for the run at 9am, the weather was great! Overcast with a few sprinkles and 65 to 70 degrees. Started to get sunnier as we progressed. The race course is the Toll Road on the East side of the mountain, 4.3 miles in length and rising 2,564 vertical feet. Thank you to RD Greg Maino, the wonderful volunteers and the Great Sponsors for another successful event!

Starting the 4^th year of the series, there are more runners than ever! I’d like to welcome Kevin Cavanaugh, Josh Curtis, Sao-Mei Leung, Paul Jones, Darrel Lasell, Jill Larson & Elaine Dill for joining us in the series and wish us all good luck in staying injury free and finishing all the races!

Leading the 465 finishers, was Josh Ferenc, finishing in 35:48. He turned around and ran back down, hopped on his bike and raced up again in the bike race that started at 10am, now quite sunny and warm! This year they had a division for that which he won in 1:45:28, leading 4 others!

Josh headed back up on the bike leg!

We had 14 runners finishing this first race! Leading the way was Kevin Cavanaugh in 43:45 finishing 2^nd (of 53) in the 40-49 men’s age group! Next was Jeff Gould in 46:03 finishing 3^rd (of 52) in the men’s 50-59 age group! Following Jeff was Josh Curtis in 46:41 placing 7^th in the men’s 40-49 age group. Len Hall was out first 60-69 in 48:16 placing 2^nd in that group. Len was followed closely by Bob Mulvaney in 49:01 placing 3^rd in Len’s group. Our first woman was Donna Smyth in 52:57 and 4^th of 41 other women in the women’s 50-59 age group. Coming in after Donna was Sao-Mei Leung in 59:04 placing 8^th in Donna’s age group. Paul Jones finished in 59:04 and was 20^th of 47 in 40-49 age group. I was next in 59:38 finishing 1^st in the 70+ age group. Darrel Lasell was next in 1:05:53 placing 34^th in the 50-59 age group. Then Jill Larson finished in 1:06:24 and was 20^th of 47 in the 40-49 age group. Walter Kuklinski did well, as he was recovering from an injury, finishing in 1:07:15 and 18^th in 60-69 age group. Elaine Dill was next in 1:07:46 and was 4^th of 8 in 60-69 age group. Dennis Gilyard, also coming back from an injury, finished in 1:08:10 and was 21^st in 60-69 age group.

Here are the stat's for the 4th series, please let me know if you find any errors and see you tomorrow @ Greylock!

Series points and standings for the Race to the Top of Vermont: (465 finishers)

      1)          Josh Ferenc(34M)                    100.00
      17)     Kevin Cavanaugh(47M)             81.82
      31)     Jeff Gould(51M)                          77.74
      38)     Josh Curtis(41M)                         76.68
      51)     Len Hall(63M)                              74.17
      57)     Bob Mulvaney(63M)                  73.02
      98)     Donna Smyth(56F)                      67.61
      172)   Sao-Mei Leung(50F)                   60.61
      173)   Paul Jones(36M)                         60.60
      185)   Fred Ross III(70M)                       60.03
      258)   Darrel Lasell(58M)                      54.33
      264)   Jill Larson(43F)                              53.91
      276)   Walter Kuklinski(67M)                53.23
      288)   Elaine Dill(68F)                              52.83
      290)   Dennis Gilyard(65M)                   52.52

Current Streak:

        1)      Fred                                                  17
        2)      Walter                                             11
        3)     Donna                                                   8
        4)     Jeff n Len                                             6
        5)     Bob                                                      5
        6)     Dennis, Kevin, Josh, Sao-Mei, Paul,
                Darrel, Jill & Elaine                              1

All time finishes:

        1)          Fred                                      17
        2)          Laurel                                   14
        3)         Donna                                12
        4)          Walter                                   11
        5)          Jeff n Len                                6
        6)          Bob                                          5
        7)          Dennis, John n Dick Hoch        3
        8)   Kevin, Josh, Sao-Mei, Paul,
              Darel, Jill & Elaine                         1

Total all time series points:

        1)               Fred                        912.63
        2)               Donna                    789.97
        3)               Laurel                    678.77
        4)               Walter                   616.61
        5)               Jeff                        470.68
        6)               Len                         446.15
        7)               Bob                        359.83
        8)               John                       190.97
        9)               Dick Hoch              121.67
       10)            Dennis                     167.73
       11)             Kevin                         81.82
       12)            Josh                           76.68
       13)            Sao-Mei                     60.61
       14)            Paul                           60.60
       15)            Darrel                       54.33
       16)            Jill                             53.91
       17)           Elaine                        52.83

Following are pictures from the race, if you get any please send them to me for possibly using in updates. Thanks!