The morning's first event was the 5000m, which saw Tristram Thomas take a brief stab at the lead, bringing the field through 1600m in 4:49, before slowing down to hit 3200 at 10:00, and ultimately finish 10th at 15:53.16.
The mile was up around noon, and Arjun Majumdar, racing in his first indoor race since March 2008, ran a fairly even split 4:46.28. In the next heat, Ed Aramayo was in a battle for position from the gun. He came through the half (809m) in 2:11.5, which had him in a good spot to challenge his 4:23 from last year's Terrapin Invite. Unfortunately, a brief mental lapse around the 3/4 mark saw his split slip a little, and he finished up at 4:28.62 for 12th. Chris Snyder, who ran a 4:40 1600 just two weeks ago at the PG Meet, apparently gets into shape real quick, as he finished 3rd in 4:21.76.
Later in the day, after I left, Greg Jubb took 3rd in the 800 with a 1:56.50, and Louis Foudos ran 2:06.50 for 35th. In the 3000m, Liz Laseter finished 4th in 10:34.31.
Somewhere on the ultra circuit, Dave Ploskonka finished 2nd at the winter edition of the Beast of Burden 100 miler. In the summer version of 2010, Dave won and ran a PR of 16h19m. This weekend, with a snow covered path, he ran 17h20m. The winner was an astounding 14h56m or something insane.
Out in sunny Carlsbad, California, Andy Gell ran the Carlsbad Half Marathon (a race we've been talking about going out to!) in 1:33:09 to finish 198th.
With a great race on Saturday, this week's Purple Drink Athlete of the Week honor is going to Chris Snyder. 20 seconds in two weeks? One way to assure yourself a PDAW is to set the bar low and then rise above it!
We had an awesome showing yesterday on the Club Challenge course - 22 people did some kind of workout, which was run in 26 degree temps. Very chilly in the hills of Columbia.
We're on the track tomorrow at 6:30 (warmup) and there will inevitably be a zillion different workouts so you can figure out what you want to do tomorrow. I know Dustin is doing 40 minute tempo starting at 5:40/mi and working down to 5:20/mi. He plans on arriving at 6:15 to do a 30 minute warmup and then starting his workout around 6:50pm. So if you usually work out with Dustin, plan accordingly. I am going to start getting back into running again, so I'll be starting with something light, perhaps 2-3 miles of 200 on/200 off a la Brennan's "workout" last week.
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We should all grow table top with Mike Tyson slice in the forehead fro's for Club Challenge and forget about team jerseys.
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