Flashes of Panic

I have committed to one more track meet for this indoor season. It’s tomorrow, this time on Harvard’s bizarrely non-standard (but reportedly fast) track rather than the springy new one at BU.

Due to the fact that this meet does not run all races as mixed, I am the slowest seed in the men’s 3000m (rather than being in the third quarter of the total mixed list.) I suspect I will not be running alone, but I think my only possible sane strategy is going to be to head straight for the back of the race, then hang on there until I either die or discover that whoever is next-to-last has slowed beyond what would otherwise be my goal pace.

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