Thursday Track Report: Buncha Eedjits

Details: Written by Bwana Bwana

October 27, 2011

Bwana drove to the track today and parked up near the MSF, thinking that if no one (or only intelligent people) showed up, he'd head into the MSF for some indoor miles. After all, it was breezy, rainy, and cold. But when he looked down at the track, he saw a few idiots warming up. Bwana jogged over to see who it was and by the time he got to the track, thought "Hey, this ain't so bad" (i.e. "Hey, I'm an idiot, too.") The group was soon joined by more idiots, and by 12:25 Jim Myers, John Domico, Lance Bland, Randy Jepson, Jim Moore, Meira Minard, Andy Maguire, Michael Goldfine, Rob Shaver, Frank Zaffino, Rich Harter, Dana Todd, Kirk Rager, Jim Laudermilch, and Marty Mazur were running around the track in the rain.

After the "warm-up", Bwana gave the workout: 3X1000 at whatever pace your barely thawed muscles could take. Most of the crew did not push the pace too hard, having done some hard miles in Sunday's Tussey relay. But Kirk Rager impressed us, seeming to suffer no ill-effects from running 50 miles just four days earlier.

Bwana hardly blames the no-shows today. And, in fact, the turnout was pretty good given the conditions and the very recently completed race. But there is still a lot to train for this year! Tara's Give 'Em Five 5 Miler is in just 10 days. And the Nittany Valley Half is but 5 weeks in the future. Time for all serious runners to get their NX800s in, where N should be an increasingly bigger number as the weeks approach December.