New Year starting out right...

With the New Year comes new habits and with that we will be posting our internal weekly newsletter to the whole world!!!! So here it is...

NEWS SUMMARY

• Comp Racing goes 22 strong at Olde Salem Greens Classic Snowshoe Race. All shine in the snow!
• Eileen “Spielberg” Dunn is the snowshoe race Director/Producer of the year with the most finishers (191) in a New England Snowshoe race, ever!!! And 2^nd most for a Northeast US race, ever, missing the record by 5!
• Sister Team “Dungeon Rock Racing” praised for laying out a spectacular snowshoe course of deep open trail and winding single track. Bill “Bucket-List” Morse does it all, course layout, snowshoe loaners, race gloves to all, trail pick-up…………..
• Team Incredibles-Desmaris (Dawnie/Bob/Bryce) complete the Disney Alaska Gatorade-Slush Marathon Adventure with the Goofy Gold (Donald ½ and Mickey Marathon combo). Jr Incredibles runner, Bryce, kicks butt at the 5k!
• Jodi’s Crew (Jodi/Peter&Blake/Chaz) also take on Donald, Mickey and Goofy and the Disney Challenge, at the 5k, ½ marathon, marathon, and combo. #4 Goofy for Jodi!!!!!!!! Looks like Blake will be joining Jr Comp Team with Bryce. You’re more than just a dancer Blake, you’re a racer!
• Nan “got medal” Thompson and John “JP got Speedo” Peters live up to their name at the Weston Winter Duathlon. (but is it “got medal” or “got speedo” that was achieved?)
• Nancy Thompson invited to the QT2 Advanced/Elite Team to up those World Championship skills, but will always bleed Orange, because that’s where the heart is. Good Luck Nan!
• Salem Cycle Experience has a sale of sales Jan 14 to 16th, 2008 bikes up to 50% off, 2009 Bikes up to 30% off, Short sleeve tops 50% off, Shorts 35% off, Select shoes up to 50% off, and More! www.salemsycle.com

UPCOMING RACES (Jan/Feb):

Jan 16^th – GSSS Feel Good Farm Snowshoe Race (Lyndeborough, NH)

Jan 23^rd – GSSS Pooh Hill Snowshoe Scramble (King Pine - East Madison, NH)

Jan 23^rd/24^th – Gunstock Winter Tri Festival - Championship and Short Course (Guilford, NH)

Jan 30^th - Harpoon Brewery Indoor Time Trial, Boston, MA

Jan 30^th - Snowshoe Northeast Regional Qualifier for Nationals, (Center Sandwich, NH )

Feb 6^th – GSSS Exeter Snowshoe Race (Exeter, NH)

Feb 6^th – Weston Ski Track Winter Tri, (Weston, MA)

Feb 6^th - Fit Werx 2010 NE Triathlon Symposium(Fitchburg,MA): http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1800584

Feb 7^th – Great Stew Chase 10 miler (Lynn, MA) www.stewchase.com

Feb 13^th – GSSS Horse Hill 7k Snowshoe Race (Merrimack, NH)

Feb 14^th – GSSS Frosty’s Snowshoe Dash for a Cure (Atkinson, NH)

Feb 20^th – GSSS Kingman Farm Moonlight Snowshoe 5k (Madbury NH)

Feb 21^st – King Pine Winter Tri (East Madison, NH)

Feb 28^th - Sheraton Hyannis Marathon/Half-Marathon (Hyannis, MA) www.hyannismarathon.com

Snowshoe Races

GSSS - http://hstrial-cdunn9.homestead.com/GraniteSeries.html

WMAC - www.runwmac.com

Winter Tri Series Races

www.wintermultisport.com

RACE NEWS:

Jan 9^th – Olde Salem Green 5k Snowshoe Race (Salem, MA) w/ support from Dungeon Rock Racing

This race has put snowshoeing on the map in the New England area. A record number of entrants 220ish, a record number of finishers 191 in New England, and was second only to a race in Saratoga NY by 5 finishers for races in the Northeast US, ever! Hat’s off to Eileen “Spielberg” Dunn, director of the race and Comp Racer, for a race enjoyed by all. There were plenty of give-a-ways (race socks, gloves), winner’s/volunteers received race hats, and raffles for all kinds of stuff, and Bill Morse headed up Dion snowshoe loaners as 40 pairs of free loaners were provided. The first-timers and the experienced all enjoyed this one. Eileen thanked DRR for the race support, but the big support came from Bill Morse. Bill you are the man! The course engineered by DRR was spectacular, a 3-mile race that included a mile of in-and-out open filed racing thru the golf course, a 1.3 mile winding single track thru Salem Woods, ending with more open field and an “you can’t be serious!” uphill finish. Congrats to first time Snowshoers Roz, Erin, Tara & Jamie and congrats to the impressive top 25 finish by “this stuff is great, but I suck at it” (his quote), but no longer, Matt “Lean-Mean-Fightin-Machine” Garceau . DRR/Comp had a strong 22 member field of male and female racers finishing in the 191 lead by Iron-Jay Cury and Tara Crowley:

COMP MEN: 23rd-Jay Curry, 24-Patrick Smith, 25-Matt Garceau, 33-Sal Genovese, 38-Dan Cooper, 45-Bill Morse, 67-Jamie Crowley, 71-Art Gray, 73-Paul Copeland, 74-Erin Bennett, 98-Richie Lewis, 103-Stu Greeley

COMP WOMEN: 66-Tara Crowley, 91-Roz Puleo, 94-Steph Cooper, 101-Christen Johnsen, 126-Denise Murphy, 151-Aubrey Gray

Jan 9^th/10^th – Disney Marathon and more, Orlando, FL

What!? 20-degrees at Disney! Gatorade slush! Freezing Rain! Sounds more like a snow-shoe race.

Team Incredibles (Dawnie/Bob/Bryce): Wonderful write up Disney-Dawnie (or is that Tigger Dawnie? Need to see a picture of that running outfit). Bryce “Jr incredibles” is looking like the future of Comp with a stellar 5k 27-min run to start the weekend. Superstar performance by Bob “Incredibles” Desmaris with a Boston Qualifying time of 3:28 after running the ½ the day before. Tigger-Disney Dawnie joined Bob in completing the Disney Triple Crown, the Goofy Medal.

Jodi’s Crew (Jodi/Peter& Blake/Chaz): Live from correspondent Peter “Steath-Warrior” Wronski……..

“Hmm, hard to be a stealth warrior when Dawnie seems to find us everywhere we go!! 55,000 people were there for marathon weekend and still we get caught ;-)”

“Friday: Up at 5am for the 5k fun run. Jodi, Blake (my 14 year old daughter) and I fought our way into the start chute, ran, had a BLAST and my daughter took 4 minutes off her time from last year, she is a dancer and not a runner” ( Sounds like the Comp Jr troops is building with Blake, Bryce, and Tyler! Way to go youngsters!).

“Saturday: Jodi and I were up at 3 for the half marathon ran into “the Incredibles” trying to get thru the bag check tent. Got pelted with a wintry mix to start the race, but were pretty well prepared with garbage bags to keep warm at the start. Cruised the race and didn’t want it to end, the fun just went too fast. Spent the rest of the day there at EPCOT, ate in Italy. It was cold, but not unbearable.” (Cold and Florida is just not right)

“Sunday: Jodi, Chaz “Mr Determination”, and I were up at 3 (almost starting to get used to this by now ;-). Lost Chaz before the start in the crowds! Just cruised the race, took a lot of photos (Mr. Incredible, Capt. Jack Sparrow, Mary Poppins, Jodi even jumped in with the Gospel Choir!) and were again very disappointed every time we came to the next mile marker, we just didn’t want it to end, it is just too much fun to be called a marathon! This was Jodi's 4th Goofy and my 2nd and it does not get old! We are probably going to sign up for the 2011 version of the Goofy, it is just too much fun to miss! (Hmmm, I think I have to try this)

Jan 10^th – Weston Winter Duathlon

Who’s nickname was persevered “Got Medal” or “Got Speedo”, or both? The medals win here as JP finishes 2^nd in the Masters male, 6^th overall of 55 diehard Winter Tri Racers, and Nancy takes a 1^st Masters, 4^th woman overall, in a race that started out at 3 degrees! Brrrrrr! It didn’t trump the negative temp of last year’s Gunstock Winter Tri, but that is damm cold. Congrats on a great start to the 4 race winter tri series.

(IF U GOT RACE NEWS, SEND ME A WRITEUP, I’LL POST ANY DISTANCE, ‘CUS ITS ALL FUN STUFF)

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