Sunday, April 5, 2026
~ Happy Easter ~
It has been a while since I posted here. My last update was just after the PRTC track meet at the Ott Center in March. I mentioned getting sick the night before the meet, I think. Well, I got very sick! A cold turned chest cold with many days of hacking. It was pretty awful--I haven't had something like that in decades! I even saw my doctor, so you know it was bad :) I had to take 10 days of antibiotics (which I hadn't taken since . . . my twenties maybe?) because whatever it was turned bacterial and was lodged in my chest. I worked out some during those weeks, but it messed up my training plans. Finally it cleared, however, and I got my energy back. I did a few track workouts solo at Ott and with Alison last 10 days or so of March into early April. I was trying to train for the meet I competed in yesterday--the Front Runners meet in NYC at the Armory. I wanted to run the 800 and 200, but the 200 was like 15 minutes after the 800, so I skipped that one. I won my age group in the 800 with a time of 2:20.24 (like a half second off my PR at the Ott meet, where I ran 2:19.77). I felt a bit unfocused yesterday, as I was having trouble visualizing my race because I wasn't sure who I would be racing with. They grouped us by similar times, so it was mixed gender and ages. It was a fairly crowded section, and I got boxed in a few times and had to fix it each time by stepping on the gas. That made me feel kind of lactic. So although I am proud of the race performance (because I had been sick and because of the mandatory maneuvering), I had hoped to run faster than my previous 800. It's a very humbling and challenging race. Because there are no lanes, every race is very different from the one before. A lot more strategy/thinking is involved. Now that I am running 2:20/2:19 (which was my goal this indoor season), I am revamping my dreams and shooting for 2:15 or better. I will have to train harder and smarter to achieve this goal. But I love it all!
with teammate and de facto 800 coach Alison yesterday at the meet
(Alison made me pose in front of this lol)
Yesterday I had the privilege to meet Mark Alexander--a member of the Front Runners team, who is currently the guy at the top in the 800 in my age group. He ran 2:11 (!) this season in the 800. It's a phenomenal time. He is also a strong 400 runner. Unfortunately, he injured his foot pretty badly and could not compete. I hope to race against him at Nationals, we will have to see. He is a really nice guy. I enjoyed chatting with him a lot.
I am going to copy and paste below my performance record from the World Masters Ranking Website for this indoor season:
Jeff Conway, USA 
- M61
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