Sunday, January 25 Decided to make another blog post today . . . I have been missing "talking to myself" on here :) I competed in two meets last weekend in Ithaca, NY. I drove up on Friday with teammates Alison and Lorraine. We stayed the weekend. On Saturday we competed in the Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile. I ran a 5:56 mile (under six minutes!). It was really hard. I tried to pace myself off of a more experience teammate--Mike--but he had a tough race and I ended up running slowly for 7 laps . . . and then I sprinted the last lap because I didn't want to be last! The first 7 of my 200 meter laps were in 44-49 seconds, but my last one I did in 34. Crazy! It was a new experience--I have never run a mile race in my life--and it was fun. Afterwards there was a great luncheon. Our teammate Johnny won the 65 age group medal. He led my heat . . . I should have paced off of him. Sunday I competed in the USATF Niagara Meet. I ran the 800. I did it in 2:23, which is an indo...
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