Not too bad for a first official electronic time, especially considering conditions. It was hot: 90º, and the race was in the middle of the afternoon at 4:30 pm - the hottest part of the day. The track sucked, a thin black tartan track over blacktop. I was in lane 5, with just one person outside me, so I ran essentially alone. Also, I was exceptionally heavy for a race ... 143 lbs when I left, 142 when I returned.
When lining up for the race, the field judge hastily seeded our group of 12 by asking: "how many can run under 60?" Me and 5 other guys raised their hands. I thought ...'holy shit, didn't expect this much competition.' Turns out, they didn't produce. I won the race by at least 50m and the second place guy was about 6 or 7 seconds behind me.
UPDATE: Just looked at the results, second place in my heat was 10.02 seconds behind me, I think I won by 70m or so. Kinda ridiculous. However, the next heat was won by a 60 yr old that ran 60.88, very respectable time
UPDATE: Just looked at the results, second place in my heat was 10.02 seconds behind me, I think I won by 70m or so. Kinda ridiculous. However, the next heat was won by a 60 yr old that ran 60.88, very respectable time
It felt hard, I was thinking coming up the home stretch... 'not today'. I suffered. So, it went about as well as I expected. OK, but not great. Better than my first time out during indoors, about a half second slower than my very first 400m race at Vandy in '11.
In order to keep my workout schedule I hope to put in a hard one tomorrow and hopefully, I'll still be able to do a workout on Wed. despite my hand surgery Tues.
Photo: at the 200m mark in the race ... running alone.
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| Yes, there were 5 other guys in this race. |
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