I signed up for the 3000 meter race at the Greater Boston
Invitational hosted at Harvard University. I car pooled in with Regina Loiacano,
Jennifer Brooks, Nick Taormina, and Katie Misuraca. It was nice to catch up and
talk about training, racing, et cetera. We got to the meet early, settled in,
and I checked in for the 3K which was going to start two hours later. I watched the gals run the 3000m Invitational race. Katie went on to win and Jennifer and Regina had solid races. I ended
up missing the start of my heat as I mis-judged how much time I had to warm up
and get down to the track. My heat was #3 (heats ran fast to slowest) so it was
totally my fault. By the time I got to my bag to grab my singlet and racing
flats, my heat was lining up. I ran down to cheer on Dan Verrington and Nick Taormina who both ran 9:51 and 10:10 respectively.
I found the race director, Dave Callum, who
allowed me to enter into the masters mile which was fine with me. I had a
banana and Powerade that Regina was nice enough to give me as I had another two
hours until my event. I carefully timed my warm up and got down to the check in
area while all of the heats of the mile were going on. I waited through 3 heats
before my mixed masters mile went off. I jumped into the middle of the pack at
the gun and saw the first two laps go by in 37, 75 and then a 2:31 800m split.
I was behind Chris Lawrence only for those laps and he began to move up a
place. I caught up to 52 year old Adam Harder from GBTC and I ran in his pocket
for the last 400m to finish 6th out of the 11 in the heat with a
time of 5:04.86. I was wiped out in those last three laps but glad Adam was there to help me out and he agreed. This event was totally out
of my comfort zone but glad I got a race in for the day after missing my heat. Krissy picked me up and we headed out for pizza and unfortunately watched the Patriots run into a solid Broncos defense and lose.
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| 6th overall in the mixed 40+ mile event |
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