An all-star team of Winchester Highlanders and friends descended upon the fair town of Chatham MA, on the elbow of Cape Cod, for the Chatham Harbor 10K. The highlight for me was the post-race barbecue at Joe and Maria Nicholson’s beautiful home in the heart of town. Thanks so much to the lovely couple for the hospitality, the delicious food, cool drink, (thx to others who brought wonderful consumables), and the pyrotechnics 
What a super way to end the event! Read on …
Archive for June 2012
Chatham Harbor 10K: Heat, Hospitality .. No Great Whites
Bill Brace (1926 – 2012): 3 Ways He Changed My Life
Before the start of 1984 AGU run over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco: Bill Brace, Howard Pratt, Steve Bratt, ???, Art Montana, Tim Grove, Brian Evans, ???, Dave Olgaard, Brian Bonner, ???
Yesterday, I and a couple hundred relatives and friends attended a memorial service in Concord, Massachusetts for Bill Brace. It was a wonderful celebration of a life lived to its fullest: world-renowned geoscientist, runner, rower, adventurer, naturalist, wood craftsman, husband, father, grandfather, friend and human being. Only a small percentage of who he was and what he did could be captured in the obituaries in the MIT press and Boston Globe .. but please do have a read. It was great to see many old friends yesterday, and to swap Bill stories.
What I want to remember here is how Bill played a major role in 3 things that changed my life: choosing MIT for grad school, meeting my wife, and finding my first job (hint: the photo here has something to do with the latter). Read on … it’s kind of a funny set of stories …
Newton 10K – New England Grand Prix
Last Sunday (June 6th), I ran the Newton 10K in nearby Newton, Massachusetts. This year, the event was also part of USA Track and Field’s New England Grand Prix series … a team and individual championship series. This means most of the region’s best runners of all ages show up. I ran for the Cambridge Sport Union (which I first joined in 1980). To cut to the chase, I ran a leisurely 42:38 — about what I aimed to run (full individual and team results here).