Thursday, August 10, 2006

Is track a fall sport?


well, no but there are some really cool meets going on right now as people are trying to sort out who will be running in the next olympics. last week was the "road to Eugene" meet where uw's very own Tegenkamp took the 1500 from a stacked field.

The recap in the Oregon Duck is pretty well written:

Men's 1500m: Jason Lunn goes directly to the lead, goes through 300m in 42.5. The runners are already in a long line. Lunn 56.3 at 400 meters. Andrew Bumbalough,Matt Tegenkamp, Said Ahmed and Anthony Famiglietti follow Lunn . AJ Acosta is 3rd from the back. 1:40 with 2 laps to go for the lead pack of 6. 800 meters in 1:54.5 for Lunn. The pack is now 4; Lunn, Tegenkamp, Ahmed, and Bumbalough. Acosta is now 4th from the last. Bumbalough drops out with 500 meters to go. Lunn drops out at the bell. Tegenkamp takes over and Ahmed follows through 1200 meters in 2:53.7. Gabe Jennings is moving well down the backstraight, trying to catch Anthony Famiglietti, who is 3rd, with 200 meters to go. Tegenkamp pulls away from Ahmed down the homestraight to win in 3:36.06. Ahmed, looking over his shoulder, holds on for 2nd in 3:38.31 over a hard-charging Famiglietti (3rd, 3:38.61) with Jennings 4th in 3:38.96. Acosta is 10th of 11 finishers in 3:47.48.

Those are some fast boys.

On a related note, these guys do run in local races and you can step up and run with them sort of.
Andrew ran in the "full moon 5k in madison" last night. The race was won by Chris Solinsky in 14:58. That's a little out of range, but a fair number of people ran the first mile with him (4:50). It's a good way to reset your mental pace and maybe move up a notch. A lot of running is mental, and a lot of that is just believing that you belong up front.

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