Discussion: Expectations for Mt Washington
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Jun 15, 2011 2:26 PM
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Article in the Northampton Daily Gazette:
The 51st annual Mount Washington Road Race will begin Saturday at 9 a.m. without either defending champion.
Women's champion and course record holder Shewarge Amare, 24, of Ethiopia, withdrew due to passport issues.
Men's champion Chris Siemers of Arvada, Colo., withdrew due to surgery.
The 7.6-mile race to the 6,288-foot summit in New Hampshire will include Peter Gagarin, 66, of Sunderland.
Gagarin is among the strongest runners in the senior division. He is a five-time U.S. national champion in the sport of orienteering, in which each entrant navigates with map and compass to a series of checkpoints in unfamiliar and usually wooded terrain. At the masters level he is regarded as perhaps the best non-European competitor in the sport.
Local runners participating include: Northampton's Bruce Finke, Kristine Lynch and Laurel Shortell; Amherst's Michael Childs, Matthew Clark and Eric Wight; Easthampton's Ashley Krause, Ross Krause and Chris Taft; Southampton's Anthony Park; William Romito of Leeds; and Sunderland's John Carey and Sara Smiarowski
The 51st annual Mount Washington Road Race will begin Saturday at 9 a.m. without either defending champion.
Women's champion and course record holder Shewarge Amare, 24, of Ethiopia, withdrew due to passport issues.
Men's champion Chris Siemers of Arvada, Colo., withdrew due to surgery.
The 7.6-mile race to the 6,288-foot summit in New Hampshire will include Peter Gagarin, 66, of Sunderland.
Gagarin is among the strongest runners in the senior division. He is a five-time U.S. national champion in the sport of orienteering, in which each entrant navigates with map and compass to a series of checkpoints in unfamiliar and usually wooded terrain. At the masters level he is regarded as perhaps the best non-European competitor in the sport.
Local runners participating include: Northampton's Bruce Finke, Kristine Lynch and Laurel Shortell; Amherst's Michael Childs, Matthew Clark and Eric Wight; Easthampton's Ashley Krause, Ross Krause and Chris Taft; Southampton's Anthony Park; William Romito of Leeds; and Sunderland's John Carey and Sara Smiarowski
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