GORHAM — With less than a month to go before the running of the 64th Delta Dental Mount Washington Road Race, the elite participant roster is shaping up to be a competitive group including a group of Canadian elite runners.
The elite field will also include last year’s winners, Joseph Gray, 41 of Colorado Springs, Colo., who won for a record-setting eighth time, and Kayla Lampe, 32 of Shelburne Falls, Mass., who won in her first attempt at Mount Washington. Both Gray and Lampe won last year by close to two minutes each.
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