Had a really good morning at the track earlier today. Just now back from helping move the daughter child into her dorm in Gainesville - that was a good trip too - a good day all the way around pretty much. Travis ran in the 1st heat with Kevin Sullivan, 2-time? Canadian Olympian in the 1500, but didn't make him sweat or anything. Sullivan won in 4:26 basically cruising. Trav did not have a good run at all, but was only 3 seconds over his goal of 4:50, so he wasn't too terribly disappointed with his 10th place overall finish. All of his team mates ran really well and are even more fired up for XC. I toed the line in the 2nd heat (projected times from 5:20-5:40), hoping to go 41 seconds each 200 for a 5:28. They set this up as a full mile, so my first 200 split was actually 209 meters, and was at 43, then I went 40, 41, 41, 41, 41, 39, 37 for a 5:23. First time in several mile races that I actually had a bit of a kick - it was fun. After watching and shooting pics of 6 more heats of mile races, I stepped to the line for the Hamstring Hundred as one of the 6 fastest 100 meter runners during the summer track series. Surprised myself with a 4th place finish just 2 hundredths off my time from early in the summer - 13.46. My award... a canned ham... on a string! |