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Written by Bwana Bwana

June 28, 2012

It was hot but not as humid as it's going to get soon as Judd Michael, George Lesieutre, Mike Casper, Randy Jepson, Andrew Webb, Costas Maranas, Rob Shaver, Andy Cunningham, newcomer Mark Dent, Dana Todd, Mark Lee, Jeremy Zerbe, and Marty Mazur headed to the track. Arts Fest weather is coming, and the Thursday Crew was there to get a little Arts Fest race training in. Only a little more time for that, what with the 4th Fest 4K coming up. Well, fold that little sprint into your training…

Bwana welcomed Mark Dent, a reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newly relocated to State College and assigned to cover Penn State sports. Well, goody for Mark, the track was loaded with Penn State sportsmen. None other than multi-time national champion gymnastics coach Randy Jepson was huffing and wheezing through one of his bimonthly workouts. And international sports were not left out as Andrew Webb, visiting from the Netherlands, was similarly wheezing as he recovered from altitude sickness. Andrew spends 11 months of the year at or below sea level in Holland and the other month in a few short visits to nosebleed elevation, scaling the hills he used to devour every weekend when he was a local. And Mark himself hails from foreign lands: the Republic of Texas! Bwana had the Crew run NX3X300, with the 300s run at sub-5K pace with 100m rests and N=whatever you can do without keeling over in the heat.

Luckily, the dew point was as low as it was. Bwana never lost his senses. His "N" was 2, though he was sure others had more "N" in them. They'll do well at the summer races, never Bwana's forte. As it is, we're all on "low boil" for mOUnTaiNBACK. And the heat will be turning up!