Sun, 1/30/22-
Made my way to the Y with V for a recovery workout.
1.0M in 8:30
5:00 of stretching
1.25M in 9:50
5:00 of weights
1.25M in 9:18
5:00 of strength work (push-ups, abs, etc.)
Sat, 1/29/22-
Millrose. The show must go on.
Despite the snowstorm that started on Friday and continued on Saturday, hammering the East Coast with as much as two feet of snow, Millrose proceeded as planned. And I'm glad it did.
Bruce was supposed to swing by at 7:30A so that we could carpool. The battered roads and snowplows galore slowed his arrival time so much so that I told him to go straight to The Armory, so as to make the arrival time of 9:00A.
I left my house at 7:20 in hopes of arrival on time. While I looked to be making good time for the first half of the trip, the second half proved to be painfully slow. I found myself behind a fleet of snowplows that we going about 12-15 mph, probably even slower than usual due to their annoyance that there were droves of cars on the road stuck behind them and pressuring them to go faster. At any rate, I arrived at the parking garage a bit after 9:30 and I got to the side entrance of the arena at about 9:40. Chuck S. handed me my credentials and off I went.
After greeting my teammates, I did a 7:45 mile on the track, mask on, and stretched, believing the track would close at 10:10. Turns out it was kept open until 10:30 or so. At about 10:30, we made our way to the warm up hallway a level below the arena for strides and more stretching. We were targeting our warmup so that we could report to the clerk, located on the bottom level, 35 minutes before our 11:22 race (so at about 10:45). As luck would have it, the meet began to run a little behind. We did not report to the clerk until about 11:00. We got race-ready and headed up to the track-side paddock area at about 11:10. As I waited, I took in the heroics of our M60 team as they took victory in their age group. While things were a little disorganized at first, the officials got things together. We were now up. At least so I thought. A few more minutes expired as the officials sorted out lane assignments. There had been one scratch, taking the field down to nine team. They'd assign two teams per lane for six teams, while three teams had their own lane.
And then we were off! John Curtis ran a monster first 200 (26.xx) to put us in the lead. By his own admission, he'd struggle some coming down the homestretch (58.xx). I got the baton in 4th, about 5-7 meters behind teammate Brock Butler, who had received the baton from a rather able Scott Burns. I ran the first 100m well, cutting into Brock's lead. I managed to stay with him over the first 300, but he pulled away some over the final 100, posting 56.81 to my 57.41. I finished the race and was scarcely winded. In retrospect, I should've pushed myself on the backstretch on the second lap (the 6th 50m). Rob Ciervo (59.xx) kept it in there, and Nick Damalas (60.xx) brought it home...for gold!
Our 40s team won gold as well. It was a Philly sweep. Where's that dustpan. Way to go, team!
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1293397461181286
https://results.millrosegames.org/
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