Chicago Mar. report

Parker Race said:

It's doubtful I'll run in more than a singlet, shorts and light gloves and maybe a light hat
unless it's ridiculously cold and windy I don't mean 50 when I say cool, if it's somewhere in the
20's to 40's I'd be happy.

Please pass the knees! ;-)

My little tendons would be twanging hi C at those temps.

Scott (who almost always dresses too warm)

In article <[email hidden]>,

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Kind of disappointing.

Kind of an understatment. I'd be completely devastated. Its so cruel that many months training comes
down to a couple of hours where anything can go wrong and that to get to your best you have to risk
failing entirely.

Andrew

Andrew Taylor said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

Kind of disappointing.

Quoted message said:

Kind of an understatment. I'd be completely devastated. Its so cruel that many months training
comes down to a couple of hours where anything can go wrong and that to get to your best you have
to risk failing entirely.

Quoted message said:

Andrew

--The consolation is that that training is not completely wasted. It is only wasted if I quit. If I
resume after a break and train hard again, that training forms quite a base of fitness. I am in the
shape of my life right now and will run some great races in the next year. I could take a month
completely off right now, then go out and beat most of my PRs. Andy Hass

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I'll start with the splits. 1- 5:27 (minus 2 sec to get to line so 5:25) 2- 5:21 3- 5:29

...

Usually, the way I count that (and what I hope and expect will be adopted as a standard in
time-reporting) is:

: 0:02 0:02
1: 5:25 5:27
2: 5:21 10:48
3: 5:29 16:17 etc.

It may be too late for the Olympics, but it's never too late to set a WR. Unlike the Olympics, that
doesn't have a 4 year cutoff and doesn't require actually being anywhere special to do it; even a
small town (but USATF-sanctioned) venue would do.