Time: 45:00
Distance: 6.5 mi.
Morning run with Tom and George from their house in Brookline. We did their most standard loop around the Fens in Boston, and I smoked them both racing back up their hill. It's actually a pretty nice route, though, and I we enjoyed some laughs about hanging out with Tom's high school prom date last night and George losing his cell phone.
Time: 28:07
Distance: 4 mi.
Early morning run with Taylor after watching election returns last night in Boston. We had a lot to talk about, but had to try to finish up in time to move our cars. Mine was fine, Taylor's got towed. No fun.
Time: 65:00
Distance: 9 mi.
I met Taylor early in the morning and headed over to the Ollie Road Race, which he was running. It was mercilessly hot and humid, which did not bode well for performances in the race and pretty much everyone coming in looked taxed from the weather. I warmed up with Taylor, ran around during the race, and cooled down with both Taylor and Chris Gould.
While I originally considered running both this and the JCCRI race in Providence tomorrow, I was definitely glad after watching this that I was waiting.
Time: 43:00
Distance: 6 mi.
Night run with Hamel and Ari from their place in Cambridge. We ran over the Charles River Dam down the south side of the river to BU and back the north side. I'm still having some stomach issues and coughing shit up, but this was better catching up with these guys and having beautiful views of Boston at night.
Time: 93:10
Distance: 13.5 mi.
This was quite shy of the 2+ hour run that I had scheduled, but after a long last couple of days, this is what I had in me. Ari came over from Cambridge for it and Tom ran the first 30+ minutes of the run with us around Reservoir Park. We would have been closer to 80 minutes, but I got us lost on the way back to the McArdle residence.
Time: 77:56
Distance: 11.5 mi.
Morning run with Brian from Chez McArdle in Brookline out to the Charles, where we ran up to the North End on the north side of the river and back on the south side past Beacon Hill and Back Bay. While we weren't trying to really do a workout, I wanted a second effort getting my legs going this week, so I got Brian to do a 6 x 30 sec. fartlek which he pretty much schooled me on. We decided to jump in the river when we were done with that and Brian was met with the cheer of "Hey Gorgeous!" by some cute British tourists has he ran off the dock.
Time: 30:00
Distance: 4 mi.
Easy run with Taylor in Boston in the afternoon. It is hot hot hot. I'm not great with Boston geography, but we headed down to the South End this time. Did I mention that it was hot?
Time: 51:35
Distance: 7.5 mi.
The Back Bay neighborhood in Boston from the Prudential Center
Met Taylor after he got done with work in Boston and headed out for a run in some of the nicer areas of Boston. We went from his place in Back Bay up to the North End and back by the Garden where the Celtics were preparing for Game 1 of the NBA finals. Lot of hoopla ovah theah.
Time: 77:00
Distance: 11.5 mi.
Goal: 3k - get a good race effort in without focusing on time (but seeded myself at 8:20)
Race: 2nd in 8:25
An okay racing experience all things considered. I would've liked to have been under 8:20, but the pace was a little bit all over the place... we were 2:12 and 2:18 for the first 2 800s (Hanley dropped out at about 1400m) and then I led until about 600m to go when Mark Miller (of Mohawk High School fame) took the lead and ran away from me. I wasn't very focused and didn't go to the well to go after him.
I wasn't really mentally ready to go after it and was out a bit late last night, but still a better start than last year. Got in a nice long run afterwards with Ian and Brian around Fenway and down Comm Ave.
Mixed 3000 Meter RunFull results here.
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Name Finals
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Section 1
1 Mark Miller 8:21.06
2 Owen Washburn 8:25.73
3 Jed Christiansen 8:33.46
4 Chuck Woolery 8:37.67
5 Adny Mccarron 8:40.89
5 Steve Meinelt 8:42.33
7 Harry Norton 8:47.43
Time: 60:00
Distance: 9 mi.
Goal: win, have fun, go after the course record (19:34) if close.
Race: won, had fun, missed the course record by one second because I misread the clock.
The Start
The Finish
Mile splits were something like 4:53, 4:55 (9:48), 4:56 (14:44), 4:50 (19:34). Had Tom on my shoulder through the first mile, but had to drop him. Apparently I demoralized him so much that he got out-kicked by his brother at the end. Wilson Perez, running for the BAA, was shadowing me thorough about 2 miles but I put on a good gap in the 3rd mile (which was somewhat hilly). I knew that I could be close to the course record (19:34) but wasn't killing it in the last mile... with about 150 meters to go I misread the finish line clock as 19:33 rather than 19:23 and eased up. Luckily that didn't affect the take. Stomach didn't feel great, but not too surprising because we were out last night. Coste ran 23:32 and Nora ran 25:36.
1 19:35 4:54 1 20-29 1 M 861 Owen Washburn Austin, TXMore: race website, full results.
2 19:55 4:59 2 20-29 2 M 2199 Wilson Perez
3 20:46 5:12 3 20-29 3 M 2062 Mario Fraioli Auburn, MA
4 20:47 5:12 4 20-29 4 M 651 George McArdle Bloomington, IN
5 20:51 5:13 5 20-29 5 M 628 Thomas McArdle Brookline, MA
