It was not a great racing day for Jackie Gamboli. Running in the second of two qualifying heats of the 1,500-meter event, she actually led the first lap of a very tactical race before falling back on the second lap and never recovering.
Her time of 5:03.49 was very disappointing. She has run much faster than this in the past few weeks in practice, at a few of the time trials Coach Chuck had set up at the Vassar Track. Yes, the race was tactical -- as many trials races tend to be -- but the gears did not shift that fast in the field and Jackie knows she should have reacted better than she did.
It was a bad day and we'll chalk it up to that. Jackie was very disappointed and upset over it, but she is in great shape and hopefully this will catapult her into great summer training for what should be a fantastic sophomore year.
Her splits: 78, 2:37 (79), 4:00 (83), 5:03.49 (84.49 last 400m).
This one's for Pete: Avid blog follower, Marist record holder and good friend of Marist Track Peter Van Aken would be interested to note that the junior men's hammer winner from Princeton broke the former US Junior record in that event THREE TIMES en route to his victory of 78.28 meters (256 feet, 10 inches). Of course, Pete probably already knows this. But since I am here and sort of witnessed it from a distance, I figured I'd "throw" that big bit of information in here.
We are now chillin in the hotel, watching the World Cup (well, I'm not watching it!) and staying out of the sun until the 10,000 later tonight. I will update with results and splits either late tonight or first thing Saturday morning.
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