Every year it serves as a mini indicator of our fitness coming off of 2 weeks of preseason.
The past two years I've come into this meet feeling pretty tired, and I've competed poorly, mostly in part to the fact that I ran too fast on most of my training runs.
Coming into the race, I thought that this year's race had the potential to be much different than the previous races. I had run a lot more doubles, been more consistent with training, and ran some pretty solid tempos.
Warmed up with the team. Felt pretty relaxed.
The race has always been held at Weston High School since it has a pretty good soccer/lacrosse field network that extends out to Weston's middle school.
The race is always approximately 6k, 6000 meters. Each year the course varies and each year it's not exactly 6k. Last year it was shorter... this year it was a little bit longer.
The race started off pretty slowly. We were running a little slower than tempo pace, but we gradually picked it up. The past two years I've always fell off the lead group after the first mile, but this year I felt pretty relaxed. Throughout the rest of the race, I ran in a pack with Dan, Paul, Devon, Chris, Ben, Ryan, and a few Bentley guys.
The last mile we started picking it up a bit. I was feeling pretty strong and, knowing that we would be finishing with 700 meters on the track, I started to accelerate a little bit knowing that there are not many places I feel more comfortable running on than the track.
Ended up just running the last part of the way with my 4 buddies; Devon, Dan, Paul, and Chris. We put a gap on the Bentley crew and the rest of the field and finished strong.
Overall, it was a great effort. Both Men's and Women's teams beat Bentley's comfortably.
I felt great running tempo effort with 4 of the guys.
We had a few guys sitting out that might have joined our top pack at the finish..
Alex Kramer '13 is our stud frosh. He has been running workouts with the top group but recently hurt his hip. He should be back running very shortly since he thinks its only a small strain.
Kerwin Vega'11, Zack Schwartz'11 should also be with us shortly. Kerwin ran 25:25 last year for 8k, Zack was our 5th man at nationals.
Marc Boutin'12 was our 2nd man at nationals. He also didn't run the race due to injury.
These guys are recovering quickly and could still have an impact on our top group of 5. We will need 7 healthy guys ready to go by regionals and nationals if we are going to do the big things that John wants us to do.
We're currently ranked 3rd in D3 Northeast, 13th in the nation. To live up to these expectations, we need to be healthy and ready to go by November.
Today was just a scrimmage, kind of a test of our fitness. We will put in a lot of good work the next few months and it will be important to do the little things; like getting sleep and drinking water in order to keep ourselves healthy and fit.
Our first big race is UMASS DARTMOUTH INVITATIONAL in 2 weeks. 8k, should be exciting.
Results,
Bentley v Brandeis Dual Meet @ Weston High School
September 4, 2009
Distance: 6,000m
Men Time
1. Sam Donovan, Brandeis 19.54
2. Devon Holgate, Brandeis 19.54
3. Paul Norton, Brandeis 19.54
4. Dan Anastos, Brandeis 19.54
5. Chris Brown, Brandeis 19.54
6. Steve Bergantino, Bentley 19.56
7. Ryan Cheng, Brandeis 19.59
8. Ben Bray, Brandeis 19.59
9. Alex Hulse, Brandeis 20.00
10. Andy Watson, Bentley 20.01
11. Jake Newfield, Brandeis 20.05
12. Will Collins, Brandeis 20.06
13. Dan Fava, Bentley 20.08
14. Mik Kern, Brandeis 20.10
15. Brian Sutherland, Bentley 20.12
16. Sean Reagan, Bentley 20.19
17. Ryan Salvo, Bentley 20.27
18. Tom Witherell, Bentley 20.29
19. Aaron Udel, Brandeis 21.28
20. Ray Chen, Brandeis 21.35
21. Gabe Kimbel, Bentley 21.46
22. Mark Jordan, Bentley 22.17
Team Score: Brandeis 15, Bentley 48
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