Upcoming Open-er

Dartmouth Relays coming up this week. Should be a fun meet, a season opener a lot of us.
Running the 800 -- me and Ben Bray
Running the mile -- Dan Anastos, Devon Holgate, Kerwin.
I have to check which of our girls are running, and what events.

Ran a 7x400, 2x200 workout with Devon and Ben yesterday,
66,65,65,64,64,63,63, 28,28
Considering the 2 minute rest in between intervals, I would say it was my best workout of the season so far, and one of my best 400 workouts I've run in college.
Should be exciting.

Not expecting much out of this 800m race this weekend. I'm not sharp yet, so this race is more about just experiencing track racing again, and getting my body to understand the feeling of track racing. This is important, because the effort involved is much different than the effort of running an 8k on cross country, the pain is a lot more intense, and the style of racing is much more aggressive; which I like... but for some people it takes a while to get used to this kind of racing. I'm excited to race, even if it won't be the fastest 800m I'll run.

Special congrats goes to Dan Darcy of Bentley. He's been a long time friend of our team, and one of my co-workers currently at Marathon Sports. He ran 4:10 at the BU mini meet this past weekend. A Huge PR. Congrats Dan!

A New Year Update

I just wanted to get a quick one in, it's 12:00 AM as I'm writing this and I have to be at work by 9:45Am in Brookline in the morning so I want to get to bed soon.

I moved back into Waltham, to work, hang out, run before classes start up again (Jan 19th.)

Training has been going well, my past 4 weeks have been (miles/week)
60,65,55,70. And this week I'm at 68 but I still have to run tomorrow, so it will be a bit over 70.

I've run a solid workouts with the guys, it will be interesting to see what kind of shape we're all in coming back from break. Our first 2010 meet is the Dartmouth meet which is the Sunday after this one.

I talked to John about what races I will be racing this month and the plan looks something like this;
800 at Dartmouth, mile at the Brandeis home meet a week after (which would mean I will have to defend my title), mile or 1000m at the BU Terrier Meet.

The Brandeis meet is a week earlier than it was last year, so if I run the mile it will be interesting to see what kind of shape I'm in. I ran 4:22 in the meet last year.

It's a long way away, but the focus of the season is pointed towards D3 Regionals, All New Englands, UAAs, and possibly D3 Nationals.
We've got a bunch of talented runners going into this track season. I think we can achieve a lot. The key is to be proactive about staying healthy and keeping sickness away.
The last few meets are meets that require qualifying times. I'm not setting high expectations for the first meets, but I do want to focus on qualifying for those meets. The key is the training, just gotta get the work in. The first races are coming up, but it's still time to get the important work in.