Masters weekend runs and races

Brian,

If you want FAT, you might try the Woody Wilson meet at UC Davis or one of the meets at Sac State. Check:

http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/track/schedules/index.asp

JM

bpilch - The Ben Brown Invitational at Mt. SAC on March 6th (it's a night 5000) is the best track 5000 of the early season down here in So Cal. And it has 4 heats for all speeds. The fields are somewhat big (about 35 per), but the competition is great. It's the only 5000 I run every year. And it'll be the only one I do in 2009. One of my teammates broke 16 minutes for the first time running it two years ago. It's a well run meet, with the races going off on time. And with full FAT and usually a few fans to boot. Of course, it's also 400 miles away from you, so there's that to consider. Good luck with your goal!

All the Spokane runners have described the event perfectly so no need to add to that. I flew from Nebraska with a bunch of other young guys but looking back, had a great weekend including a Sunday morning 10 mile run from our motel to the Idaho border in about -25 windchill. I lined up at the race behind the Fluffy B's at the start and heard a quip I enjoyed. Someone said, "Remember...every man counts!" and a reply came back..."What if I'm no good at math?" Looking forward to Lexington and with any luck, I'll bring a team.

Brian, There might be a few of us in Sac willing to give that 16 a try. Let's all identify a meet in N. Cal and give it a go.

-Woody

There's a number of us in Reno interested too.

Woody... wrote:

Brian, There might be a few of us in Sac willing to give that 16 a try. Let's all identify a meet in N. Cal and give it a go.

-Woody

"I had a good race. I was 5th man and 20th I believe (19th in team scoring). 35:35."

Hello KevinB and everyone else....My first post on this site!

I'm such a FOOL...There's only one thing worse than racing in Spokane's cold, windy conditions and that would be racing and not showing up in the results.

Kevin, I was unofficially 20th overall in 35:30....just couldn't catch Jeff Ambos down the final 200m...some wind.

I had tested positive for glazed do-nuts and Kit Kat bars... actually, you can guess what happened.

Despite this...we all had some fun.

Francis (DQ) Burdett

Jeff, Sounds good.

When the Don Bowden mile was canceled last summer a bunch of us got together and still ran the mile. This grass roots mile had a pretty strong turnout with three different heats depending on time.

-Woody

Jeff, Pete, and Woody, thanks for the input on track. I am definitely going to check out the Ben Brown Invitational, and I would love to get a 16 flat group attempt together in Norcal. Jeff and Woody, if you guys want to email me, I put my email on this post and we can figure it out... thanks, Brian

Here are a bunch more photos of the mens and womens masters race plus men's and women's open races and awards ceremony at the club nationals in Spokane last weekend (see links below). I ran in the men's masters race, so I couldn't photograph that, but I had one of our teammates grab my camera and she got some good shots.

You can view these pictures as large as you want and download the originals if you want. The gallery is heavy on pictures of runners from the Seattle area, where our Eastside Runners team is based (in Redmond/Bellevue/Kirkland), but there are also a lot of photos of other runners.

I added a couple of short video clips at the beginning where you can hear the wind howling, since still photos just don't show how crazy windy it was.

I ran my worst race of the season there, but still had a blast. What an experience. This is one race we'll be talking about for years.

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6836989_F7GJu/1/437364663_A9KKV#437364663_A9KKV

...holy crap....Messiter is running again.......does he still talk as much ;-)...where is he living???? back in seattle???

I'll fly in from NY for a sub 17 attempt, if it's not too slow for the meet and there's good brew afterwards.nyloco

bpilch wrote:

Jeff, Pete, and Woody, thanks for the input on track. I am definitely going to check out the Ben Brown Invitational, and I would love to get a 16 flat group attempt together in Norcal. Jeff and Woody, if you guys want to email me, I put my email on this post and we can figure it out... thanks, Brian

Messiter IS running again. I talked with him at the regional, he was very humble and glad to be injury free and enjoying running. Since he was running for CNW I assumed he was living in the Seattle area.

I think Sean Messiter lives up in Bellingham, WA.

Sean does live in Bellingham. We wanted him to run for us, but he is too fast, and nobody on our team is as cute as the CNW Masters.

Still Hammering, thanks for the pictures, good stuff.

I think the frozen air did something to my lungs because I had a pretty shitty race and I could not breathe in that environ. I have been short of breath this whole week. Tried some (12) 200s tonight and wheezed the whole time. I'm pretty worried about it. Looks like I'll have to go get it checked out.

After the weather we have had here this week Spokane is looking mild.

It has been below 20 degrees for the high all week, high winds and over a foot of snow.

I plan on cross country skiing today instead of fighting the snow and drifts.

I've run in worse weather. Just not so uhhmmmm...scantily clad.

Get better Wman, bitter weather can mess with the breathing and lungs for sure...

I think we are getting the recent storm of the West out here, inches of snow have fallen and still coming down as I type, for hours now!

It will be a day off for me, I just don't feel like battling the elements which is wimpy after reading all the stormin cross nationals reports!

As I suit up to run at work each day I inveribly hear "you're not going running in that are you"?

Whatever Man, hope you feel better.

That was the worse weather I have ever raced in too. The only race that comes close was the 1980 Seattle marathon