Friday, November 27, 2015

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TURKEY DAY TRYPTOPHAN making you feel fat, chubby and outta shape?
Shhooooot, that's why God created AAU National Cross Country Championships (which were traditionally the Saturday morning immediately after Thanksgiving somewhere fun like a golf course outside of Seattle or Burbank or LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Belmont Plateau in Philly or Crystal Springs in Belmont, CA)
Instead perhaps you finished the cross country season and then waited till Sunday after Thanksgiving to run Dal...las White Rock, Fiesta Bowl, Philly or Mission Bay Marathon?
Alternatively, like the blokes pictured here you'd head to a regional 440 yards dirt/cinder/clay track for the first time since last spring where you'd gut out 2 miles in the Postal Run that'd be compared not just to Lompoc's Terry Williams down in SoCal but to all up and coming cross country cats across America.
Regardless of our place in the sport, Thanksgiving was always the very briefest respite.. by 8PM on the aforementioned Thursday you believed you were ridiculously fat and outta shape...48 to 72 hours later you'd be just crushing a 26.2 mile marathon or AAU Cross Nationals or at least the local yokal postal competition.
We're typically convinced that we are only as good. as our most recent workout or race and find no solace in that one Pilgrim inspired holiday ...and so are entirely compelled to head out ASAP and perform some high intensity bashing to help us justify the stuffing, the cranberry sauce and the second slice of humble pumpkin pie
I call this "phenomenon", you know, when your athletic brain wants to play tricks on you, being 'runner crazy'...as in I saw that dude just the day after Thanksgiving he was all like 'runner crazy' ...pissed and depressed and stuff and then he texted me Saturday night to say he just inexplicably made the junior national XC team heading to Morroco and so now was just about over the friggin' moon wink emoticon
Happens EVERY single year at this time to long distance racing athletes especially those who regularly average 85 MPW or more.
Check it out... either YOU or two to three of your running buds will experience this remarkable rebound effect from the deepest darkest Thanksgiving hangover between early a.m. on this Thanksgiving Saturday morn and 1:45 p.m. this coming Sunday afternoon ...mark my words wink emoticon
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Ed Lopez Is that Rob Barnett from Hillsdale high on the left and Mitch Kingery from San Carlos High tucked behind the leader? This is an early 70s Postal two mile.
Mike Fanelli definitely Kingery and alongside him, Roy Kissin
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Ed Lopez I am sure that is Hillsdale's Rob Barnett. As a senior he ran 14:53 at Crystal Springs in the 1974 MPL (Mid Peninsula League) Finals when I was a freshman. I ran a modest 17:48 that day.
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