Got Track?
I wanted to write this last night but didn't return home until late so figured it could wait. My goal is write daily. Only took 2 days to blow that goal.
Saturday was a day filled with track and field. A lot of it. In the morning was the women's terrier classic http://www.bu.edu/track/06TrackMeets/ResultsW_Terrier_09.htm. My wife, christy, raced the 3k. She raced well and closed well. Right about where she should be for one month of training. The most impressive performance was put forth by mary cullen of providence with a smoking 15:39 5k. I ran a 45 minute run after warming up with christy and then cooled down with her for a total of 1 hour of running in the am. Good solid 9.
After the Terrier we headed over to the Reebok Boston Indoor Games http://www.bostonindoorgames.com/2006/index.htm. I was lucky enough to run in the exhibition event Corporate Sprint Medley Relay. The race was a really fun time. The mess before hand was not. They told us we were running at 5:40. At 5:30 they told us we were running at 5:30. No one had there spike on so it was a huge rush. Then they could not locate the batons so I didn't have one and had to get one from the table. In the mean time, Tommy lines up all the teams, there were supposed to be 6, but there were 7. Tommy gets pissed at me because I couldn't get my baton and wasn't at the line 10 minutes earlier than the schecule so he screwed me and put me on the outside of the barrel on a one turn stagger. Anyways, gun, I spilt 28,28 for a 56 which is just about as fast as I go so I wasn't dissapointed. I gave the baton for our 2nd leg in a tie for 2nd about .5 seconds behind the leading team who cut in too early. That doesn't really matter because that 55.5 was their stongest runner. And I was our weakest so after that our female ran 28 point, then Joe put out a 23 which was funny because he recieved the stick about 20m back and handed it off about 70m ahead. Then justin closed out with a smoking 800 about 1:54-55. I haven't seen the exact splits yet. I saw Alison there with her ever present camera so I may be able to link to some photo's once she sort's them. It was a fun event to be a part of even though I wish it wasn't in a token role. Our team won 8 tickets to the Patriots next year which is going to be great. I think the Reebok/NFL relationship is involved but that is just a guess.
On to the action, and there was a lot of it. The best event was the men's mile. Tight, fast group with no gaps and no one mailed it in. 11 guys broke 4 minutes and the winning time was 3:55. I have never witnessed such a race of tactics and speed that is that tightly packed. All of the miles were close together. The women's mile was great to watch because ex-Reebok Boston club member Jen Toomey came in forth with a quick 4:30 mile. Not far off the winning 4:29. Coe and Blood won boy's and girl's high school race which was also entertaining. I would mention the women's 3k and 5k but those time trial races are boring to me. Defar ran 8:30 and Dibiba ran 14:35 with perfect pacing from their rabbits.
The men's two mile was a complete let down. The rabbit blew it. Absolutely choked it. He was supposed to run 4:04, which he did. But he split it 1:54, 2:10. The real racers weren't looking for 3:36 pace so they let the idiot go and just jogged a 4:18 first mile. The best assembly of talent on American soil ever! 4:18! I would have been right in it at 4:18. I couldn't have closed in 4:08 with a 56 last 400, but still. 8:26 was all they could manage. They proably do repeat 2 mile intervals in 8:26. I don't even want to talk about it.
That's it. I will give another update of the exciting sunday long run this evening. I am off to watch Haile run the PF chang 1/2 marathon in a world record 58.55.