Despite drinking wine and eating desserts at the Old English Pub on New Year’s Eve (& staying up until 2AM!) I still had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to run a good race on New Year’s Day! Every year the Hudson Mohawk Road Runners Club puts on the Winter Series, a series of races that are only $5 to run in. I had decided pretty early that I wanted to run this race to start 2012 off right. Not because its a good race, because the course is horribly boring (and hideous) and there is no crowd support to be found. Its pretty much 13.1…