A nice day in February for a race. I drove 2 hours south to Wakefield Mass to race in Cupid’s Chase 5K. With no real races in Maine in the month of February this year I decided to take the drive. Well organized race with a flat racecourse that officially measures at 3.14 miles taking you around a small lake, slightly longer than an official 5K. The race course narrows very early in mile 1 down to a 4 foot wide walking path at the north end of the lake with a few small ice patches, nothing more than 1 or 2 strides. Apparently a little too much for one runner as they almost came to a complete stop right in front of me. I came very close to running into them and had to sidestep almost into the snow bank. A slight breeze turned into a headwind the last half mile or so. The temp was just over 30 with the windchill in mid to upper 20’s. I’ll take that for a race in February. Overall, I would take the drive to do this race again if I needed to.
I felt pretty good, but just not as fast as I’d like to be. I finished in 22:18, placing 32 out of 387 runners, and took 2nd in a very closely contested age group. They award the top 3 runners in each age group and we were all within 18 seconds of each other. My award was some Hershey kisses, a cookie, and a new pair of running gloves. The cookie has mysteriously disappeared.
My next race will be the Irish Road Rover 5K in Portland in about a month.
February 14, 2026
2026 Cupid’s Chase 5k
December 14, 2025
2025 WCRC Santa’s Toy Trot 2 4 6
4 Miler Maine Finishers
1 1 1 4M3039 Tony Myatt Portland ME 39 M 57 27:46.2 6:57 14:02.4
23 Joan Tremberth Scarborough ME 80 F 58 47:18.3 11:50 23:43.4
2 Mile Maine Finishers
4 Steven Dubois Lisbon Falls ME 53 M 94 14:03.9 7:02
11 Laurie Nicholas Gorham ME 57 F 13 16:36.0 8:18
16 Barbara Buck Westbrook ME 67 F 137 17:45.6 8:53
44 Margaritt McNulty Windham ME 73 F 60 26:30.2 13:16
51 William Quintana Westbrook ME 68 M 485 28:06.3 14:04
52 Philip Gottlieb Wells ME 79 M 30 29:36.8 14:49
February 16, 2025
Longfellow 2.5K
MTC Frostbite 2.5K scheduled for this Sunday is now virtual only. The in-person race will NOT occur.
Maine Running Photos will still cover this event but we will have to cover it will file photos & perhaps some video if we can find some file video of some of the runners.
September 9, 2023
2023 Neighbors Helping Neighbors 5k
August 5, 2023
2023 Safe Voices Race for Survivors | 5k & 10k
Local races are important. It is great to see when newspapers take time to cover the local news. Steve Dubois is a hard working runner. I am happy the Sun Journal was there to record his win on the male side of the race. Congrats to the female winner was well.
May 1, 2022
2022 Dash for Dogs 5K
December 4, 2021
July 28, 2018
MMCC 5K Trot for Autism ~ Auburn, ME, July 28, 2018
MMCC 5K Trot for Autism ~ Results ~ 137 Finishers
Auburn, ME, July 28, 2018
Steven Dubois & Melissa Bubier waiting for the start of the race. photo courtesy of 5k Sports (The results stated that MS Bubier was from MA but that might have been an error)
Photos
- Set 1 courtesy of 5k Sports
April 29, 2018
2018 5K CYO Go For Baroque
April 23, 2018
Raccoon Run 5K Portland, ME, April 22, 2018
Raccoon Run 5K
Portland, ME, April 22, 2018
file photo of Gretchen Speed above
file photo of PATRICK BEAULIEU
file photo of STEVEN DUBOIS
Last month @ the Irish Road Rover 5k Steven Dubois of Lisbon, Maine came in before Patrick Beaulieu
Steven told us on fb “I ran in the Raccoon Run 5K around Portland’s Back Cove trail. Beautiful weather for a race. Warm enough without being too warm. I thought maybe the wind coming off the water would cause issues speed wise, but it really wasn’t a factor. I hope that’s the case next weekend at Race The Runways in Brunswick. Really happy with how I ran today. A couple of confusing parts on the course as cones were set up marking the course for the Portland 10-Miler that was happening after this race. The cones were actually blocking part of our course near the finish. Anyway, I finished in 21:22, my fastest time ever in a Back Cove race by over half a minute. Could have knocked a few seconds of off that if I didn’t have to work my way around all the cones. It definitely disrupted my finish sprint. This was good for 3rd overall out of 63 runners, taking 1st place in my age group. I won a pint glass and a nickel.”
