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Written by Bwana Bwana

May 7, 2015

It was warm, sunny, and a little humid, with enough pollen in the air to make your eyeballs itch as Jim Myers, John Domico, Judd Michael, Lance Bland, Costas Maranas, Mike Renz, Mike Martin, Mike Zimmerman, Charlie Vassey, Kevin Becker, Rob Peterson, Jeff Welsh, Rich Harter, Adam Ilgen, David Lloyd, Dana Todd, Amy Blake, and Marty Mazur headed for the track.

Bwana was having a hard time dreaming up a workout until Lance mentioned how sore he was from doing a special birthday workout the previous day with Jim Myers. (Bwana thought he was the only person who did birthday themed workouts.) The workout was special indeed: sets of 60 sit-ups, 60 push-up, 60 pull-ups, 60 lunges, and probably 60 of two or three other things…you get the idea, and you can probably guess Jim’s age. Jim is one of the Original Thursday Trackers, and through the ups and downs of injuries, he’s been doing the Thursday workouts for well over 20 years. Bwana decided to continue the theme and gave 4X600 at 5K+ pace with 400 meter rest (Bwana should have made it 6X600!). Jim, ageless as ever, proceeded to do the workout the way he always does Bwana’s workouts (though maybe not as fast as 20 years ago): by cutting the prescribed rest in half. Bwana followed Jim (as usual) as well as he could, all the time thinking that we were doing the 600s in not a whole lot less time than we used to do sets of 800s!

Well, that makes two people in the Thursday regulars who are now in the 60+ Club. In a few years, we’ll have enough to form an Old Men of the Mountains JV Squad. (The varsity OMMs have a minimum age criterion of 65, and their average age is well over 70!) We hope to keep bringing in youngsters to keep this operation moving long after us geezers are watching from lawn chairs.