Northeast Uphill Mountain Series

Ascutney Mountain Run

4^th series, race #4

Robin Allen-Burke, what about this ball of energy, git-r-done, take charge Woman! She, along with Team AMP’ers, saved this wonderful race from passing! We, your fellow runners, heap loads of praise upon you!!! Everyone all together now, three cheers for Robin! Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah!!! OK, that’s enough…don’t want her head to not fit through the doorway 😊

Robin tells me the folks working at the State Park also went over n above helping out, thank you so much!!! Northeast Delta Dental lent a hand as the Primary Sponsor, with many other businesses and others helping out…a true Team effort! With 51 runners signed up ahead of time n about 25 more on race day I hope you came close to breaking even!?

It was reeeaaally great that Greg Maino was able to come down, donate to the race’s prizes n set up a tent at the finish for runners interested to learn more about the Race to the Top of Vermont. It will be the 1^st race in the 5^th Series held on Sunday, August 22^nd…a Great Race!!! Check it out http://www.rtttovt.com/

I competed in the USATF National Mountain Running Championships @ Cranmore Mountain last weekend n my right leg developed sciatica! My running wasn’t pretty n didn’t know how this day would go, other than I’d be lucky to get up the hill! Talked with Robin n timers n agreed I’d go up on my own, give them my time n take pictures. Oh boy!

And what a glorious day it was! Not overly hot with the 9am start n views forever up above! Whatayathik AMP’ers…if ya loved it jump for joy…er, Robin 😊

Through Ascutney, there are 11 of use that have done all 4 races and on track for a 2018 lottery by-pass, congratulations! From the information I have, please correct me if I’m wrong, Meg, Darrel n Cris failed to get into Washington through the lottery but the rest of us are in…please confirm in an email to me @ mtnrunr@comcast.net Thank you!

Here are the current stat's for the 4th series, please let me know if you find any errors, thanks again!

Series points and standings for the Ascutney Mountain Run: (70 finishers)

1) Drew Best(35M) (30:44) 100.00

8) Kevin Cavanaugh(48M) (38:22) 80.10

10) Jeff Gould(52M) (40:04) 76.71

11) Joshua Curtis(42M) (40:53) 75.17

16) Bob Mulvaney(63M) (42:41) 72.00

21) Donna Smyth(57F) (44:58) 68.35

25) Sau-Mei Leung(51F) (45:49) 67.08

26) Meg Paugh(32F) (46:24) 66.24

34) Fred Ross III(70M) (48:39) 63.17

41) Cris Cote(54M) (50:03) 61.41

49) Darrel Lasell(59M) (54:45) 56.13

55) Dennis Gilyard(66M) (58:50) 52.24

56) Walter Kuklinski(68M) (59:07) 51.99

Current 4^th series standings:

1) Kevin 337.20

2) Jeff 329.39

3) Josh 327.60

4) Meg 290.70

5) Donna 286.63

6) Sau-Mei 275.55

7) Cris 272.48

8) Fred 265.20

9) Darrel 229.45

10) Dennis 228.18

11) Bob 222.26

12) Walter 222.12

13) Len 153.70

14) Paul 128.06

15) Jill 110.17

16) Elaine 109.04

Current Streak:

1) Fred 20

2) Walter 14

3) Donna 11

4) Jeff 9

5) Dennis, Kevin, Josh, Sau-Mei,

Darrel, Cris & Meg 4

12) Bob 1

All time finishes:

1) Fred 20

2) Donna 15

3) Walter & Laurel 14

4) Jeff 9

5) Bob & Len 7

6) Dennis 5

7) Kevin, Josh, Sau-Mei,

Darrel, Cris & Meg 4

8) Dick Hoch & John Kowalski 3

9) Paul, Jill & Elaine 2

Total all time series points:

1) Fred 1,117.80

2) Donna 1,008.99

3) Walter 785.50

4) Jeff 722.33

5) Laurel 678.77

6) Len 525.68

7) Bob 509.07

8) Dennis 343.39

9) Kevin 337.20

10) Josh 327.60

11) Meg 290.70

12) Sau-Mei 275.55

13) Cris 272.48

14) Darrel 229.45

15) John Kowalski 190.97

16) Paul 128.06

17) Dick Hoch 121.67

18) Jill 110.17

19) Elaine 109.04

Following are a few pictures from the race. Next up is the 5^th n final race of the 4^th series…the Northeast Delta Dental Mount Washington Road Race on June 17^th in Gorham, NH. If you get any pictures there, please send them to me for possibly using in updates. Thanks!