Monday morning kudos to our mate Lindsey Brezenski (19:40) on her win at yesterday’s Omaha Race For The Cure. Appears to have been a Real Race with 2nd place finisher Angela Sing (19:42) only a couple of ticks back. Another Nebraska Run Guru Elite overall victory. That’s three and I’m counting.
Descriptor: Moving forward I’ll refer to NRGE athletes as mates, it was my term to bring with. And when referring to Team Nebraska I’ll say old mates.
Have to give a big hand to our mate Kyle Clouston. He has been unselfishly driving over from Lincoln every Wednesday night for pacing duites with Lindsey. Team.
Congratulations to some of my old mates too. Luka Thor, Justin Mollak, Jimmie Doherty, Bob Miyake, and Craig Christians went 1-5.
Big Tip of the Sombrero to old mate Nate Stack too. He ran a very nice 2:36:23 at the Twin Cities Marathon to be the only finisher from Nebraska. Up next weekend is my boy and old mate Cory Logsdon tearing up the Chicago Marathon, Natalie Como too. It should be apparent and noted that while I don’t ride roughshod over my old mates anymore I still support all but a couple.
Dichotomy. I want Team Nebraska athletes to do their very best, that will never change. Now I’m just urging our NRGE athletes to finish one spot ahead. Viva Competition!
My old buddy Elva Dryer would only finish 3rd master at Twin Cities. Sheri Piers of Falmouth, ME took the win in 2:38:33. Former Omaha Marathon winner Wendi Ray was 2nd in 2:40:27 and Elva was next in 2:44:23. The top seven masters women were all under 3 hours. On the men’s side old mate (one year only, 2003) Tracy Lokken finished 2nd overall in the 45-49 age group in 2:26:26.
Twin Cities also served as the open US Championships for the marathon. The top 9 men ran Olympic Trials qualifiers, sub 2:16:00. The top 10 women ran sub 2:40 for their Trials qualifiers.
Some good conversations going on at the USATF Nebraska Association LDR facebook page. Telling to see where folks are shaking out in this new era of openness and communication. Wish I would have set this up years ago. Nothing like open communication to dispel rumours and lies. Or to foster positive growth. I’m opting for the latter with the former being gravy.
Gravity. I saw the movie yesterday at the IMAX in 3-D. My review is that the special effects overshadowed mediocre performances.
Gravity. One of the fundamental forces of physics. The force exerted by the gravitational field of a massive object on any body within the vicinity of its surface.
I have a gravitational pull on those around me that possess dreams of potential realized. I’m definitely much more selective on how I parse it out these days. Those bodies that reside in my sphere of influence are now hand selected, fitting a criteria of characteristics learned from dealing with so many different personalities over the years.
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