Training Log Archive: bishop22

Our opening track meet was rescheduled from yesterday to today. I was expecting to have some time to run before, or perhaps during the meet, but the meet was looking very close, so I spent some extra time with the troops. I think that was especially important, being the first meet, and I don't think they were in the habit of a consistent warm-up routine.

Anyway, Rush-Henrietta is one of the top distance teams in the area, so we would have to perform well to grab any points. We did get some good news to the effect that 2 or 3 of their top guys weren't able to compete, coming off an extra long indoor season.

In the 1600, Nico took a valiant shot at the win with just under 800m to go, but couldn't quite hang on and settled for third. We went an amazing 1-2 in the 800m as Vanzo set the early pace and AJ had a blazing second lap to run 2 minutes flat (Vanzo was 2:02). Nate patiently sat in 3rd place during the first 5.5 laps of the 3200, then made a move which wasn't covered strongly, so he took off and ran away with the stunning win in a huge PR of 10:22. The other coach (whom I've known for over 20 years) had been expecting 8 or 9 points, but got just 4. I was chastised after the race for "illegally aiding the runner", but there was no grounds for that, since my movements were perpendicular to their line of travel only, as I crossed the infield to cheer on both straightaways. Nate's win meant we only needed 2 relay wins, which we got in the 4x100 and 4x400, but we added an exclamation point by winning the 4x800 by a huge margin.

No time for a run after the meet, since we had to hustle off to Buffalo ahead of tomorrow's drive to Pig territory.