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Written by Bwana Bwana

June 14, 2012

It was mild and sunny for the last Thursday Track workout of Spring as Jim Myers, Lance Bland, George Lesieutre, Michael Goldfine, Costas Maranas, Adam Smith, Blake Cohen, Rich Harter, Kevin Becker, Rob Peterson, and Marty Mazur headed for the track. If Spring passes her baton to Summer, we can expect crazy weather, hot and dry one day, tornados the next, and snow by late August.

Bwana, at the urging of Vice-Bwana Jim Myers, called out 6X400 two-person relays. Bwana tried to make it clear that runners should pair up with others of roughly the same speed. But when all were paired up, the two left standing were the fastest and the slowest: Blake and Bwana, the hare and the tortoise, on the same team. Blake made Herculean efforts each time he had the baton, and kept reeling in runners, only to have Bwana lose them back. In the end, Blake handed to Bwana for his last lap, with a good shot at 3rd out of 5 pairs. But Bwana fell to George at about 200 meters, at which point Bwana feigned a fainting fit, dropping his team to last.

It was good to see Costas at the track. He was playing "odd man out" in the outside lane, doing some laps. Though it was not a "Costas Pace" yet, he was definitely getting his game on. Meanwhile, Meira was corrupting the youth, passing her trackophobia to youngster Tatum Del Bosco, late of State High, who'll be starting at Penn State in the Fall. They did a "fly-by" along with another guy who has suffered a recent bout of "Old-Guy-itis", Tom Cali. Tom is drowning his Low-T tears by choosing to run with talkative youngsters rather than coaxing his mojo back at the track.