Coach Horton left me a funny
voicemail recently, asking me if I was enjoying the cooler weather here back
East after record-setting temperatures out in Oregon! To which my reflex reply
would be, “well, it’s more humid here than it was out there.” Which of course
leads me to one of my favorite tabloid headlines of all time: “It’s not the
heat. It’s the stupidity.” Fortunately for all of us, the heat and humidity are
breaking very soon. I’m sure it’ll be back. It’s summer, after all. It is what
it is.
While we were out in Oregon for
several days, unfortunately we missed out on two alumni weddings – both held on
Saturday, June 26, same day as our racewalkers’ competition. Michael Schab (Florida
Gulf Coast, Fort Myers area) and Matt Panebianco (Maine Coast, Kennebunkport
area) tied the knot and both ceremonies were well attended by our beloved Forever
Foxes. This is not the first time we have missed alumni weddings because of special
track trips – most recently, it was Brian Townsend’s wedding five years ago,
while we were at USATF Juniors at an equally blazing Fresno area venue (Clovis,
California).
Speaking of Forever Foxes, Billy
Hild was out in the Pacific Northwest at the same time as us, and we connected
on Thursday evening at Hayward Field and then again on Friday morning for a jog
at Pre’s Trail. Hild pointed out that it was the first time we had ever run
together in all the years we’ve known each other. He was nice, took it easy on
me, although the low-8s pace felt peppy to me in the blazing morning sun.
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