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By JON KLAVERKAMP
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Conditions for the Fodderstack Race on Saturday were anything but ideal. Temperatures in the high 80s plagued runners throughout the race, prompting many to complain of insufficient practice time in the heat.
Depending on the runner interviewed, the heat added anywhere from one to five minutes onto race times. Merrill Strange of Castleton, who confessed she walked parts of the course, made a typical comment after the race. “I thought it (the heat) was terrible. I’ve never had to stop and walk before, even when I was pregnant."
Strange said the lack of wind aggravated the problem, adding that, luckily, “A really nice man was hosing everybody down about midway through the course. ”
Strange also summed up the feelings of many runners by saying “You just had to keep telling yourself you were doing it to finish, not for time."
If mere mortals complained about. the oppressive heat, two superhumans did not. Steve Pinard of Hartwood, the overall champion with a record-breaking time of 31:26, dismissed the heat with a shrug - “I didn’t mind it." That’s almost a cruel admission. Others who approached heat exhaustion were still crawling across the finish line while Pinard was lying on the courthouse lawn yawning and saying he didn’t mind the heat. The guy must train in an oven set at 350.
In his first Fodderstack last year, Pinard won and set a record. This year he shaved nearly a minute off that mark. “It’s a tough course," he said. "I would like to have slowed down, but I heard Bill Stewart (2nd place finisher)
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