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Written by Bwana Bwana

November 10, 2011

Well, it was actually Mid-Armageddon on a cold, cloudy, breezy day as Tom Cali, Judd Michael, Lance Bland, Randy Jepson, Tom Hilands, Michael Goldfine, Marv Hall, Jon Thurley, Mike Renz, Adam Smith, Andy Maguire, Mike Casper, Dana Todd, Jim Laudermilch, Kirk Rager, Rich Harter, Dave DeGroote, and Marty Mazur headed past a gauntlet of media and dazed Penn Staters. The fall-out of the Sandusky scandal was still unfolding. Meira Minard also made a mystery appearance at the track, though without her red box of tricks, nor even her running gear. Oh, and Janet Jonson favored us with an appearance by her mittens.

Bwana decided to give the trackers something to get their minds off of it, for at least a half an hour or so. The workout was NX800 at 5K-10K pace with short (200 m) rest. Unlike last week's workout of 400s, the Crew hewed closer to the time benchmark. I think it was the "twice the run with the same rest" part of the whole thing. Bwana did 5X800. Others may have done another or two.

Over the next couple of weeks, Bwana will be doing workouts to help him get ready for the Nittany Valley Half. Probably lots of 800s and longer. Hopefully, the rest of you also have this, the last race of the 2011 Series, on your calendars. But unless you want the Spiral of Death to be your personal Armageddon, you'll need to come to the track!