I convinced Verrington to join me for a romp 25 times around the track in Brighton for the New Balance “Night at the Track”. I probably would not have done it without a partner in crime since night races are not my favorite. One of the factors working in favor of doing this race was that I’d never raced on February 29. I only have four other days that I haven’t raced on!
I seeded myself at 19:00
which got me listed as 13th of 19 in the final heat of the
meet. This would be a quickly run mini-meet kicking off at 6 p.m. which
meant my race wouldn’t start until about 9 p.m. which is a solid 2 hours beyond
my normal sleep time. I kept pretty much to my normal routine with a 6
mile run in the morning and a 3 mile run at lunch (both at a moderate
pace). I did not run after work instead opting to nap for about an hour
before Dan picked me up at 5 p.m. and we were at the track by 6:30. That
gave us plenty of time to chat with familiar faces. It was great to briefly catch
up with Fernando Braz and talk to Don Fay and David Westenberg who would both
be in our heat.
Once the first heat of the
5,000 started Dan and I went upstairs to the warm-up track and did an easy 2
miles to loosen up (and in my case wake up). After that I put on my Nike
fast shoes and did another mile around the track. I felt a bit tired and
very unsure of myself. I lined up in the second row at the start figuring
it’d be just as easy to start in the back from that position. I was
hoping to roll along with 45 second laps and see if I could manage around 6
minutes per 1,600 meters (a little short of a mile). My last 5,000 on the
track was about a year ago and I’d just barely ducked under 19 (17:57). I
settled in the back and hit the first lap in almost exactly 45. I passed
a few people as the laps went by and hit the 1600 in 6:03 and then had my worst
3 laps of the race running right around 47 seconds per lap. I felt
awful. After that I rebounded and hit 3200 in 12:15 (6:12). I had a
good back and forth with one of the other runners that kept us both
working. My last mile was better (6:08) and I kicked for home to duck
under 19:10 with a 11th place 19:07.3. Dan and I mustered
together a mile warm-down and called it a night. No more night races
please!
1
17:41.3
Steven
Young
M29 GBTC
2
18:06.2
Madelyn Germain
W18 Norfolk
3
18:07.3
Matthew
Pilon
M15 Unatt
4
18:07.6
Kieran Newcomb
M30 Valor TC
5
18:11.1
Don
Fay
M50
GLRR
6
18:19.5
David Westenberg M66
GLRR
7
18:19.8
Jessica
Minty
W39 Battle Rd TC
8
18:46.8
Margaret Bowles
W18 Unatt
9
18:58.2
Ralph
Mead
M57
GMAA
10
19:01.1
Kylie
Bemis
W34 Unatt
11
19:07.3
Dave
Dunham
M59
CMS
12
19:16.0
Chloe
Pangonis
W29 GBTC
13
19:30.2
Jenna
Castro
W31 GBTC
14
19:51.8
Rebecca
Patel
W20 Unatt
15
19:58.3
William
Savoie
M18 Marianapolis Prep
16
20:12.3
Daniel Verrington M61
CMS
17
20:20.2
Nate
Palter
M21 Norwich TC
18
20:26.1
Ellen
Malloy
W25 Tracksmith
19
21:18.1
Grace
Mazza
W24 Unatt
If
I just look at my Kilometer splits I ran a fairly even race, with a faster
first and last K.
|
200
meter splits |
Km splits |
Rolling time |
||||||
|
45.798 |
45.798 |
45.592 |
44.645 |
44.947 |
03:45.8 |
03:45.8 |
||
|
44.787 |
45.300 |
45.518 |
46.940 |
47.477 |
03:52.2 |
07:37.9 |
||
|
46.943 |
46.188 |
46.367 |
46.560 |
45.568 |
03:51.3 |
11:29.3 |
||
|
46.667 |
45.970 |
45.856 |
46.216 |
46.544 |
03:51.1 |
15:20.4 |
||
|
46.544 |
45.546 |
46.090 |
46.546 |
45.448 |
03:46.9 |
19:07.3 |
||
|
Green = best 5 |
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|
Red = worst 5 |
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