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Written by Bwana Bwana

February 9, 2012

The wintry weather was on its way, but not quite there yet. Soon white platelets would be falling from the sky. So red-blooded runners Jim Myers, John Domico, Tom Cali, Randy Jepson, Lance Bland, Mike Casper, Ken Davis, Michael Goldfine, John Wilcock, Andy Maguire, Dana Todd, Kirk Rager, Jim Laudermilch, Rich Harter, Tony Huang, newcomer Constantin Schreiber, and Marty Mazur decided on an indoor workout. It was a good mix of the right types of people, with Thursday Track Charter Members Jim Myers and Marty Mazur, some from nearly that far back, and a few relative youngbloods including Constantin Schreiber, still wet behind the ears. Or was he still wet from all the Gatorade dumped on him after his great showing in the Indoor Mile Series? The only thing missing from the mix was the leavening of the ladies. Monika Houston took her first Thursday off since joining the Crew. The attendance of rest of the ladies was anemic as usual.

Bwana took the suggestion that we do some relays. It was 2-person 6X2 lap relays. Bwana thought he was paired up with Mike Casper, but as he rounded the final turn, Casper was gasping just from the warm-up. He had just given blood for the Ed Thompson Memorial collection, and had very low energy. So Bwana made Myers and Goldfine's team a trio. He tried to match Myers stride for stride on each 2 lapper, usually lasting a lap or less before falling behind. Bwana thought like he must have given blood the way he felt!

Bwana's not too sanguine about the Spring running prospects of some of our slackers. Mike Weyandt, Mike Renz, and Tom Hilands are are waiting for outdoor track season to try to inject some speed into their legs. Actually, Hilands misplaced his bottle of Geritol. The Crew could use an infusion, or maybe a transfusion. The trick is to to convince some of the more pallid ones to take a tourniquet around the track!