Easy 4.4 with Sasha sped up to marathon pace for a mile. Heading to Ogden with Sasha this evening.
On another note I took my son James (12) to his first ever track meet. He wanted to run a mile but the longest events for his age group were the 800 and the 400. We signed him up for both with the 800 being first followed by the 400 about 30 minutes after the 800. I was not sure what to expect in the 800 but I told him to just go out and run hard the first 400 and see what happens. I was thinking he would run around 2:45. He took off at the start and after the first 100 was in second. On the back stretch he took the lead and started to pull away. He hit the first 400 in 78+ and was well in the lead. At this point I was hoping he could hold on. He was able to hold on to the pace pretty well running the second 400 in 80+ with an over time of 2:39.2 and had a pretty big gap on second place. He was very excited about it as he did not think he could run that fast. The 400 was next and James was not too excited as he was pretty tired from the 800 and there was a boy from his school that had beat him in the 400 at school several weeks ago during PE. I told him to just run as best as he could but the key was to get a fast start and push the first 200 hard. He led from start to finish and won by about 2 seconds running a 72.11. What was even more impressive is that the wind had picked up quite a bit and was blowing very hard directly down the finish straight. He commented afterwards that the when he hit the last 100 the wind was killer. This was a great day for James and a big breakthrough for him. Sorry for going on I guess I'm just a proud father and was very surprised at how fast he ran.
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