Ice Box Runs Start in January!

Written By Mike Smith

Ice Box Runs will occur every other Saturday starting in January in the Monadnock Region! Each run starts near a coffee shop/eatery. These are NOT races. These runs are more low key than the Chillers. No timing, no course set up, no registration. Just friends getting together to run.

Below is the schedule for the Ice Box Runs. Each “starts” at 9:00 AM.

Jan 2 Green Grocer, Peterborough, Old Dublin/Elm/Union loop
Jan 16 Identity Coffee, Rindge, Cathedral/Shawhill/old New Ipswich loop
Jan 30 Aesop’s Table, Peterborough, High/Summer loop
Feb 13 Union Coffee, Milford, N. River road out and back
Feb 27 Parker House Coffee, Peterborough Spring Fling loop
Mar 13 Bagel Mill, Peterborough, Upland Farm/Old Sharon road loop

From Sean Radcliffe: These runs are not sponsored or administered by the MRM club. Please run safely and responsibly (socially distance practices) as necessary. I will post the course for each Ice Box Run in the MRM race calendar similar to the Chiller races.

Mike Smith

Co president Mike Smith has been involved with running since he took up cross country in middle school.  While never one of the top runners across the state, he did come away with a 16:35 xc PR before he stepped away from competing in his youth.  Shortly into adulthood Smith came back to the sport for good, both as a means for fitness and simply to keep active and resolve some unfinished business.  Looking to see if there was something left for him in high school sports, he became the head coach for his alma mater, Mascenic, and coached there for twenty five years before hanging up the head coaching position this past year.  His teams racked up ten Division 3 team titles (8 boys, 2 girls) and qualified and competed at the New England championships twice.  Not bad for a school of 270 kids.  When not coaching, Smith is often found running, talking about running, or wandering around the woods and trails of New England.

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