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.