Morning, noon and night

Freshman Daniel Czop (pronounced "Chop") had a self-imposed long and productive day on Friday. First, he and fellow freshman Ian Wiesinger decided (on their own, no prompting, no "punishment" run) to show up at 5:30 a.m., to run with me and our early-morning "Hyde Park Early Birds" running group. Our Friday routine is a 6-mile run from Marist, usually up to College Hill and down to the river and back up to campus. Our winter loop has morphed into a "Main Street Run" because it is more well lit and safer in the dark. Since Czop was racing the 5km at Ocean Breeze later that night, the "plan" was for him to do a simple shakeout jog and then meet us at the bus at 11 a.m. Next thing we know, Czop is jogging down Main Street with us, heading away from campus. And voila! He did the entire 6-mile run with us (you can see the boring run stats from Schneider's watch). Fast forward more than 12 hours later, and Czop ran a pretty solid season-opening 5km at Ocean Breeze (splits below). Afterwards, I sent these post-race photos to the running group text to show the guys what this crazy young kid did later in the day (yes, Peter, his place was incorrect on the scoreboard, but the time was accurate). We usually don't recommend a 6-mile "shakeout" ... but for Czop, it seemed to do no harm.

5,000-meter run

6. Daniel Czop 15:51.40

36, 74 (36), 1:52 (38), 2:29 (37), 3:06 (37)

3:44 (38), 4:21 (37), 4:58 (37), 5:36 (38), 6:14 (38)

6:51 (37), 7:29 (38), 8:07 (38), 8:45 (38), 9:23 (38)

10:02 (39), 10:41 (39), 11:21 (40), 12:00 (39), 12:40 (40)

13:20 (40), 13:59 (39), 14:37 (38), 15:15 (38), 15:51.40 (36)

Kilometer splits: 3:06.6, 6:13.6 (3:07.0), 9:23.7 (3:10.1), 12:39.9 (3:16.2), 15:51.40 (3:11.50)