Saturday, January 13, 2024

Looking back - January 1984

 

Looking back - January 1984 (40 years ago)

I raced three times during this month and ran 324 miles with two days off. I was having a lot of trouble with my plantar fascia, an issue that would plague me for many years.  I kicked off the year with a long drive up to Colby College where I ran the two mile.  I never felt good during the race although I was able to win running negative splits (faster in the second mile than the first).  My splits were 2:19/2:20/2:21/2:16 for a 9:16.  A week later I ran an open meet at BU, running a rare mile.  I ran a PR of 4:17.8 with splits of 64/66/64/63.  I closed out the month at UConn in a quad meet with UConn, Adelphi, and Manhattan.  I ran an even more unusual (for me) distance of 3,000 meters.  I’ve only run the 1.86 mile distance 18 times while I’ve raced 2 miles 95 times.  I took second place running a time of 8:28.

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