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Dear
GFRC runners and volunteers, With
everyone’s support and participation I think we really pulled it off
this year; 115 finishers, a picture perfect day plus a big financial
success. Of course it doesn’t hurt to have the grand master of
New England trail running allowing us to use his name to promote this
wonderful race and race course. All of Rich’s buddies were there
as well as Ben Nephew who won the race. According to Rich, Ben has won
The Escarpment Mountain Trail Race for the 7th year in a row.
The race is ranked the toughest in New England and Ben holds the course
record. We
had 30 people pre-registered for the event plus 10 who emailed and said
they intended to run. Based on this and attendance at other local trail
races I was hoping for a total of 75 runners on race day. I guess people
came out of the woodwork once they saw what a beautiful day it was; the
weather forecast all week predicted Sunday to be rain with and possible
T-storms. I knew we hit it big when registration started to back up with
three people working registration, the Brophy parking lot was full,
there was a long line at the men’s room, I ran out of race tags for
the men’s 40 – 59 age group and we ran out of Gatorade at the food
table. The race started at 9:08 with 118 runners and all except 3
finished. From there everything proceeded right on time. I
am still on the upward portion of the race director learning curve and
have received great suggestions for improvement as well as what I have
determined needs tweaking. I
will also be thanking the following donors for their wonderful support
in separate letters: Dick’s Sporting Goods, 12/$25 gift cards, Jewish
Cemetery Assoc. 10 Dozen bagels, case of apples and T-shirts for Rich to
autograph, Thunder, a $25 Gift certificate, the Framingham Firefighters
Union for providing an EMT on a volunteer basis, Kevin Fallon and CMS
for providing race supplies and guidance free of charge. Dunkin Donut
and Honey Dew Donut shops in Ashland for providing over 20 dozen donuts. Additional
thank yous for the two large pots of great soup from Ken Power, ? dozen
homemade cookies from Charlotte and Walter Garland for the wonderful
hand crafted (made in New England) lifetime achievement award for Rich
Busa. I also want to thank the many others who donated to the food
table. Below
is a list of all the volunteers and their jobs. I want to thank all of
them so very much for giving of their time and effort in helping me and
the club make this race such a great success. I love doing it and I’m
sure they must to. If I missed anyone please forgive me and let me know.
Happy
trails and thank you all again!!!! |
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