4/20/2019 Matt Addessi Races At The Lake #1 Munroe Falls, Ohio

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4/20/2019

Races At The Lake Race #1

Munroe Falls, Ohio

Criterium Bike Race

Finish Place 12 / 26

Race Recap By Matt Addessi

Criterium racing (Crits) is like something I’ve never experienced, it’s basically a drag race, and chess match at 30mph shoulder to shoulder. I wasn’t sure what to expect being my first but I knew I needed the race to be fast and strung out to play to my strengths as a TT guy. But due to really wet course and a few very tight corners no one wanted to really hammer so the group stayed bunched the entire race which meant a hectic group sprint at the end. And that’s exactly what happened. Sprinting isn’t a strength of mine yet so I went early with about 500 meters to go hoping to confuse the group for a few seconds, but as soon as I went, 3 others followed and I was swarmed at the line ending in 12th. I made good decisions to stay clean, upright, and towards the front but I think I burned to many matches and had nothing left for the sprint ending. So much fun, so hard, and I can’t wait for the next one.

3/16/2019 Michael Homula Louisville St. Patrick’s Day 5K Louisville, OH

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3/16/2019

Louisville St. Patrick’s Day 5K

Louisville, OH

Michael Homula

Finish Time:  21:20

Overall Place:  19th

Division Place:  4th

Race Recap By Michael Homula

There was a good turnout of 298 runners given the colder temps. The course was mostly flat but there were some challenging hill sections that didn’t look like much but were sneaky tough and some 10-15 mph headwinds made the course tougher than it might normally have been.

I did not have as good a day as planned thanks to coming down with a nasty flu 2 weeks ago and missing several important training runs (those tempo/lactate threshold runs are so important for 5k races).

I finished 18th overall and 4th in my age group with a time of 21:20 (20 seconds slower than my last race a month ago).

There is much work to get done in the next several weeks to get that time below 20:30.

As always, I am grateful to run as part of Ohio Team-ER and our outstanding group of sponsors.

3/16/2019 Scott Orlando Hartville St. Patrick’s Day 5K Trail Race Hartville, OH

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3/16/2019

Hartville Trail Runs St. Patrick’s Day 5K Trail Race

Quail Hollow Park Hartville, OH

Scott Orlando

Finish Time:  24:45

Overall Place:  19 / 207

Division Place 4/12

Race Recap By Scott Orlando

This was my third year in a row running the Hartville Trail Runs St. Patrick’s Day 5K Trail Race.  I think I have returned to this race because it is always well organized, the race swag is great, and it supports a good cause.   This year the race organizers listened to suggestions of past participants and adjusted the start of the course to remove the made dash to the trail head which bottle necked most of the field for the first mile.  The new start traveled up the road farther spreading out runners before turning onto the trail head.  A much needed improvement.  Once on the trail conditions went from bad to worse.  The ground quickly changed from soft to ankle deep mud in many sections.  The thick muddy sections made for extremely difficult running conditions.  Several competitors lost shoes stuck in the mud while others fell.  I personally stopped twice to check on other runners that had fallen.  No one was going to finish with a fast time under the tough conditions.  My mind set quickly went from running hard and fast to running safe and trying to avoid injury.  This is the only trail race I typically compete in each year so I have not yet invested in trail running shoes which gave a certain advantage to anyone wearing them.  Luckily I finished without incident and lived to run another day.  For the second year in a row I finished in 4th place in my age division.  I did manage to move up from 26th to 19th overall.