Championship time

This weekend is our conference meet, and for most of us the end of our indoor season. A few people, maybe a relay, might be going to nationals on the guys and girls side.

But for the most part this meet wraps up the winter season. It's the final goal of all from all of our training that has included below-freezing runs, and countless laps around the indoor track.

The UAA Championship will be in New York City at the Armory indoor track, which some think is the fastest indoor track in the world. Pretty exciting stuff. We leave thursday morning, and the meet is a 2-day meet scheduled from friday night to Saturday afternoon.

To give a recap of last weekend at All New Englands at BU,
Chris Brown ran a 4:22 mile.. but that was after getting shoved off the track with 500m to go. He was on pace to break 4:20 by a good couple seconds, so he'll get another shot this weekend.
My suitemate Devon ran one of his best races to PR in the mile by about 5 seconds. He ran 4:14 in a really solid race. His pace was pretty even.. went through 800m in 2:07.
He'll have a good shot at placing in the mile this weekend.
Paul ran the 5k, and got 4th overall with a time of 14:50, an 18 second PR.
Also the Girls DMR ran 12:12 to qualify provisionally for nationals.

We have a good crew going in.
I dont have John's official word, but this is what it looks like people will be running:
DMR: Matt Jennings 1200, Ming 400, Marc Boutin 800, Devon 1600
800m: Me and Aaron Udel
1 mile: Chris Brown, Devon, Marc Boutin
3k: Mike Stone, Paul, Dan Anastos
5k: Paul, Zack Schwartz

Although the UAA is a pretty competitive conference, we have a bunch of guys that could probably score.
The 800 will be interesting, they only take 6 guys into the final on Saturday. The trials are run on Friday. I'm pretty confident that if I run close to my PR in the trial I will make it into the final. The conference has 10 guys sub 1:58 according to the performance sheet. http://raceberryjam.com/uaamenindperf.html
My PR is 1:57.. but I ran 1:58 at Bowdoin on a flat track earlier in the season so I think I have a good shot at making it into the finals.

We ran a short workout today,
6x300. We kept it pretty chill and ran from 47-44 pretty relaxed. I felt good and I'm gonna try to run easy the next 2 days until the meet.
Gonna get pumped for the armory!