Pearl Street Mile

Warped and twisted, but a good week

Posted by simon on 9/4/2007 on simon's blog

Marked as it was by another stunningly mediocre performance, this time in the Pearl Street Mile, and ending with a banged-up hip, knee and ankle from an evasive fall during a night-time run, how could this qualify as a good week? But it was, in a warped and twisted way.

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Welcome back to altitude, lungs

Posted by simon on 7/22/2007 on simon's blog

Well, that was a bit of a shock!

I've hardly run since last Sunday's 10k at sea level in London's Hyde Park, but today was Back to Schedule day. I met Bobby McGee, Marci and fellow milers Kyle and Frank for an early-morning training session on the Pearl Street Mile course.

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Beasts to the front...

Posted by simon on 2/14/2007 on simon's blog

Good choice, Boulder Race Series!

Announcing the dates for 2007 with a revamped webpage, the organizers have chosen a "classic" picture of the start of the Beauty and Beast section of the Pearl Street Mile.
That's men over 50 and women over 40.

See the Pearl Street picture "here. Can
you can spot your Enthusiast-in-chief in the line of straining geezers?

Hint: I led the race from the gun for the first 400m before my miling mate Kyle and Colleen de Reuck took over, so don't look at the back! Yes, I "died" and was hanging on bravely (so I thought) until Patty Murray (also visible at the start) came past at a flat-out sprint and really put me in my place.

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Leading the Pearl Street Mile

Posted by simon on 11/2/2006

5th in 5:14. Not what I wanted, but not too bad.

It all went a bit wrong.... I went out too fast and three of them sat on me for the first 400m. (Picture shows me going to the front right from the gun.) I had to practically start jogging to get anyone to come past me. When they did, I was trying to recover and settle in when at 800 metres ex-Olympian Colleen De Reuck looked round at us all and then attacked. I had nothing left and just had to hang on.

Scott Hajicek (51), a demon trail runner and 2:45 marathoner, passed Colleen to win in 5:05 (he is the white-haired bloke in the white vest about four runners behind me in the "The Start" picture); Colleen ran 5:08; Kyle Hubbart (50 -- he won the 2-mile Sunrise Stampede in June in 11:08), got third; then Patty Murray, a former NCAA 10,000m Champion and Olympic Trials marathon qualifier, came hurtling past in the last 150m.