Back on Track

Amy and I just got back from a 2 week tour of our ol' stomping grounds in the Northeast.
We skied a day. Terrible. It's like my lil bro Alex' friend said once "Yeah, I don't really understand Eastern skiing." Amy and I felt like snobs but it really was terrible. Granted it looked like they hadn't gotten much snow all year so maybe that's what it was.
We spent a couple of days in Boston and lo and behold there was an all comers track meet at Boston U while we were there. I've barely been running - 20 miles a week over 3 runs and no intervals since before Portland Pro Nats in September. I couldn't pass on a chance to get on the old indoor track though.
I got in the 2nd fastest heat with the 9:12 seed time I drew of of my hat. Got through the quarter in 72 and it was smooth so I knew I could hold that and make some moves. It was like old times, I sat back early on and stuck to the rail to run the shortest distance. Hit the mile in 4:44 and a couple guys broke off the front. Moved up and caught them but they seemed to be slowing so I went around and into 2nd. 1st place fella had about 25m on me. I was slowly catching him and then all the sudden it was 400m to go and I HAD to go if I was gonna make a go of it. Managed a 66 last quarter to finish it up in 8:50 (about a 9:28 2 mile) and win the heat. Not spectacularly fast, I ran 8:20 in college, but I was pumped to me in that shape off my current run training. Good to know that the swimming is keeping me fit.
My college teammates mixed it up in the fast heat, Paul Ryan got 3rd in 8:29 and Liam Revell ran 8:35.
Awesome to be back in Colorado now. Ready to swim hard and start building in some good bike efforts to get ready for the season.