Glory Days

I was browsing the web for local high school meets, since I feel like I should take an interest in such things given the subject of my blog, and I came across the results from this year's indoor track state championships on March 9.  There are some pretty nice pics here along with all the results.

I was somewhat surprised to see a Groton kid in the 1000.  Mikhail Kern took 21st with a time of 2:41.23.

This made me think back to what I ran in high school, so I looked into the Tully Runners archives and found that I only popped a 2:38.35 good for 5th that year, which by the way was WAAAAAY less competitive than 2009.  (Fifth place this year would have won by 6 seconds my senior year and this year's winner from F-M was less than 3 seconds off my PR.)  Also surprising were some of the guys in that race.  Reed Mauser, who I would race a good amount at Yale, won the race, and none other than Ed Palermo took second.

Impressive Cornell Performances

In celebration of running both days this weekend and given the fact that I've finished the latest draft of my grant and don't feel like doing anything else, I figured it would be a good time to update my blog.  A lot has been going on in the running world including World XC Champs, but I figured I'd use my 5 minutes of blogging to congratulate a couple of Cornell performances.  First off, a delayed cheeseburger to the Cornell men's DMR team that ran 9:35 the week before indoor nats.  That's the fastest time to ever NOT make it to the show, which is certainly saying something and they did it without Jimmy.  Also, nice work to Zac Hine who this past weekend dropped a nasty 29:09 at Stanford for 2nd in school history behind Brian Clas.  Zac is now in front of a couple of Olympians and he's still got a few months to drop under 29.  So painful just thinking about that.