Time trials at practice

Today’s midday practice at the Vassar College track was a bit of a departure from the norm.

Because most team members have this coming weekend off from racing, and because last Saturday’s Metropolitan meet at Rutgers was for all intents and purposes a waste of time due to terrible weather, the Track Coaching Braintrust decided a Time Trial would make sense.

Side note: The Track Coaching Braintrust did NOT include me, which is probably a good thing. I was not around last weekend to witness the horrendous conditions (rather, we were endlessly circling JFK Airport, waiting for appropriate conditions to land our jet). Coach Chuck and Coach Horton independently came up with this idea, which I wholeheartedly endorsed.

Anyway, the protocol for the men’s sprint crew centered around an all-out 400-meter dash. It included a lane start and two-turn stagger. Serious stuff!

On the women’s side, Chuck – who is recuperating from knee surgery and could not be there – emailed me with the race groups.

Group 1 did an all-out 800, followed by a 15-minute recovery, and then an all-out 400.
Group 2 did an all-out 1500, followed by a 15-minute recovery, and then an all-out 800.
Group 3, which was really not a “group” per se as it only included two Rachels, did an all-out 3,000.

Here are the results, in some cases very impressive!

Men’s 400-meter dash
(Note of explanation: This was such a CLOSE race and we obviously did not have FAT systems at our disposal. Terry clicked his watch as quickly as possible and these are the most accurate results possible. Top to bottom, everyone ran well, in our opinion. Very well, in fact!)

Phil Krupka, 51.7 seconds
Chris “America” Coscio, 52.0 seconds
Chris Vanzetta, 52.3 seconds
John Kristie, 52.3 seconds
Mike Clifford, 52.4 seconds
Connor Dodge, 52.6 seconds
Josh Lopez, 53.0 seconds

Women’s group 1
800-meter run
Briana Crowe, 2:22
Laura Lindsley, 2:27
Tara Nuccitelli, 2:27
Kelley Hanifin, 2:30
400-meter dash
Colleen Meenan, 64
Briana Crowe, 64
Kelley Hanifin, 67
Tara Nuccitelli, 68
Laura Lindsley, 70

Women’s group 2
1,500-meter run
Erin O’Reilly, 4:52
Dayna McLaughlin, 5:02
Becca Denise, 5:04
Jillian Corley, 5:06
Elizabeth O’Brien, 5:12
Kelley Gould, 5:16
Julie Hudak, 5:21
Colleen Smith, 5:27
Rachael Peterson, 5:40
800-meter run
Jillian Corley, 2:33
Becca Denise, 2:34
Kelley Gould, 2:34
Dayna McLaughin, 2:39
Colleen Smith, 2:40
Julie Hudak, 2:42
Rachael Peterson, 2:51

Women’s group 3
3,000-meter run
Rachel Bremer 11:31
Rachel Lichtenwalner 11:46

Traditional workout for men
--The men’s long-distance group did 8x1000m thresh cruise intervals with 1 min recovery, and they did it quite well.
--Billy Hild did the above thresh workout (Thresh by Fresh?) last week. As a result, he did a very impressive 20x400 workout (2 sets of 10, 1 min break, full recovery between sets). Impressive in that it was solo, and while working on about 3 hours of sleep.

To one and all, a hearty thumbs’ up and nicely done …