For more information send an email to forget the 38th annual Acushnet Road Race on Labor Day, Sept. at the academy at 101 Academy Drive in Buzzards Bay.Įntry fee for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy Youngie Shuffle 5k is $30, but for another $5 you can have brunch in the academy’s mess deck after the race. The Massachusetts Maritime Academy joins the road race world with its debut race scheduled for Sept. David Hawkins, 54, of Dartmouth was eighth in 34:07, good for first place in the 50-59 age division.įinishing second among the women was Caroline Levesque, 37, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, in 38:40, followed by Camille Bucci, 44, of Warren, Rhode Island, in third place among the women. Finishing second was Bronson Venable, 28, of Warwick, Rhode Islande, with a time of 26:25, while Dylan Villescas, 26, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was third in 26:58. The overall winners were Mike Fisher, 34, of Brighton, with a time of 25:56, and Carolyn Heidenthal, 38, of Grafton, with a time of 35:44.įisher’s time was just six seconds off the course record of 25:50 set by Dan Kahn in 2007. The 46-year-old Goff ran a 32:04, tops for the small group of runners from the New Bedford area, while another Westport resident, Stephanie Carter, was the first woman from this area with a sixth place finish and a not-too-shabby time of 41:53. Greater New Bedford runners were few and far between in the Common Fence Point 5-miler in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, last Sunday, but Laurens Goff of Westport made it worth his while with a fifth place finish overall and a victory in the 40-49 age category. I’ll go as hard as I can, but I want to enjoy it. “Now I just hope to stay healthy for Boston. I finished 100th out of 800 runners in that race. I always try to run a good half-marathon in my marathon training. “Plus I ran a good half-marathon in Warren, Rhode Island in the July 4th weekend. Getting in good running shape in the summer is tough around here. I knew what I needed to do to get it done. “I’m happy where I am now in my conditioning. “I was well prepared and the weather was good, 66 degrees and foggy,” said Harrison. That placed him third in the 70-74 age division at Frisco, which consisted of 24 die-hards. That’s a pace of 9:13 per mile, not bad for a 73-year-old geezer. He reached that with time to spare with a clocking of 4:01:37. He needed a time of 4:25 in San Francisco to qualify for Boston. (personal record) will be his goal in his next Boston Marathon, which will be his 30th marathon overall at age 74. “I was happy to finish those races, but I didn’t enjoy them like I did in the ones before that. Once again, he finished, but it was no fun. Harrison said it was the worst weather conditions he had ever encountered in a race, an observation shared by most of the runners that day. It was cold and wet, with a steady rain through the whole 26 miles. He managed to avoid a cold in this year’s race, but had to fight the worst weather conditions in the history of the race. As luck would have it, the 2017 race turned into another painful grind when he once again came down with a cold a few days before the race, resulting in another miserable run and staggering finish. Not to worry, he would make up for his slow time the following year, or so he thought. He accepted that as one of life’s little obstacles. It started with the 2016 marathon, which he ran with a bad cold. “I don’t know what it is about Boston, but something has gone wrong for me in those last three,” said Harrison. Call it the fickle finger of fate, or just bad luck. Not that he failed to finish those three marathons or ran poorly, but because he had to struggle to finish them through no fault of his own. That marathon, you see, qualified him for Boston’s 2019 marathon in April, where he hopes to erase the memory of his last three Boston Marathons. It will be his 10th Boston Marathon, but that’s not why he flew cross country to run the San Francisco Marathon last month. New Bedford marathoner Bill Harrison has cleared the final hurdle on his way to another shot at Boston.
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