I was there to witness Brian's great run. After the first women's 5K heat, and with three heats of 5K's left (one women, then two men) the auto-timer came over to me and said he couldn't do it anymore. Too dark to take pictures. We have no lights on the track but the surrounding buildings have a few so you can actually see things along the homestretch. But, not enough so you can film the finish. So I jumped up and became the timer (I was backup hand-timer anyway). We had five watches going and about 10 of my distance runners on the finish making an impromptu finish-chute.
In Brian's heat, one of our runners (SF State) took the pace through 5:00/10:01 and then Linen from Chico dropped a 69 with another one of my guys chasing after him. After that, it was off to the races. A great field with those two at 15:27/15:29 and then the pack started to flow in at 15:39. I don't have Brian's official hand-time yet as I had to leave immediately after the meet to pick up my kid.
Fast heat was won in 14:38. I noticed Angel Marquez (Chico) checking his watch as he came by the start line each time so figured he was the designated pacer. I started yelling times to him so he wouldn't have to try to see his watch.
A couple of other things: Brian mentioned a meet on 3/27 at San Francisco State. We're hosting a meet that day to accommodate all those who don't get into Stanford. We have pacers lined up (men -14:10, sub-31:00; women - 17:00 so far). We have great fields and if the conditions are anything like yesterday, which they usually are, we expect awesome races with lots of collegiate qualifiers to nationals and regionals.
We are also doing our Master's Mile at the Johnny Mathis Invite on Sat, 4/4/09 for those 40 and over.
Both Meets are on Direct Ahletics (http://www.directathletics.com/). Feel free to email me at
tomlyons@sfsu.edu
if you would like to know anything about these meets. Thanks.