National Champion

Coyote Mas Loco · March 18, 2018, 12:01:51 PM

Ran the USA masters 8K road championships this weekend. Good race conditions at Virginia Beach, temps cool in low 30s at the start but only a light breeze. The course is about as flat as you can get. All the big name runners in my age group were there. I was a bit nervous, and in the pre-race write up USATF had me as the favorite but with equivocation.

Start was frantic and congested because it's a mass start with 8000 runners and an older teammate got knocked down and broke his hip. I was 4th at the mile (we wear back bibs that identified age group). Moved to 2nd at 1.5 and hung 5 m behind the leader until 3. I decided to surge and see what happened. He stuck with me for a bit but his footsteps faded as I caught a group of younger runners. Just hang on with these guys!Which is what I managed to do.

28:10 chip time and 28:12 gun. 2nd guy was 8 sec back. They use gun as official. The American record is 28:07 by Norm Green, chasing his footsteps again. Came to win and that's the big thing. Next up a little marathon out east and then some recovery.

Fast Eddie · March 18, 2018, 01:15:57 PM

Nice!

Way to race smart, surge and break your competitors.

Richard21142 · March 18, 2018, 01:58:51 PM

Nice race/report!

hot dog eating face off · March 18, 2018, 08:12:48 PM

whoohoo!

Plugging Along · March 18, 2018, 08:23:54 PM

Arrojo · March 18, 2018, 11:30:03 PM

Outstanding!!

diablita · March 21, 2018, 07:37:03 AM

Congratulations!!

Rochey · March 22, 2018, 01:29:55 PM

What?

Congrats!!

SnarlyMarly · March 22, 2018, 05:16:57 PM

Cingrats

Rochey · March 24, 2018, 05:35:58 PM

Which marathon are you doing? I hope you have good weather!

Coyote Mas Loco · March 25, 2018, 05:52:48 PM

Quote from: Rochey on March 24, 2018, 05:35:58 PM
Which marathon are you doing? I hope you have good weather!

I hope you do too!