NNHS Alumni Results - 2/14/09

It was quite a day for NN alumni in meets on the East and West coast.

Robinson, Chebot PR at BU Valentine Meet

The 3rd heat of the men's 5000m at the BU Valentine's meet was a reunion of Bay State rivals Dan Chebot, Mike Burnstein, and Doug Brecher, and the race didn't disappoint. In the early laps, it was Brecher out the quickest, running in 6th or 7th place through the 1K -- passed in just under 3:00. As the pack spread out, Chebot and Burnstein began moving up, and by 3K had dropped Brecher. The final few laps turned into a mano-a-mano duel, with Chebot passing Burnstein and then holding him off through a blistering final 400 run in about 67 seconds. Both finished with huge PRs -- 15:03.22 for Dan and 15:03.79 for Mike -- with Doug back a few places in 15:15.25.

Not only was the race great to watch, I had the privilege of listening to NN alumni Josh Seeherman and Noah Jampol announce the race for Flotrack.com. Once the link to the video is up, I'll post it,

Earlier in the meet Noah had run a season's best 4:29.88 in the mile, and Josh had run 2:00.60 in the 800, despite getting an errant elbow to the face in the first few meters of the race from an over-zealous Bentley runner. In the 400m, Dave Cahill ran 51.70 for the 400m.

But perhaps the best performance came in the 200, where Cailean Robinson ran an indoor personal best of 22.00 to finish 10th overall out of 175 competitors.

BU Valentine Invitational - Complete Men's Results

Barnicle PRs at Husky Classic

I thought the BU Valentine meet was deep, but the Husky Classic at the University of Washington was simply unreal. 20 runners uner 4:06 for the mile; 21 runners under 14:00 for 5K. On the women's side, 21 runners under 4:50 for the mile. German Fernandez winning the 3k in 7:47, Matt Centrowitz winning the mile in 3:57, Jenny Barringer running a meet and facility record to win the 5K in 15:01... All very impressive.

But the result that made me most excited was this line from the seeded heat of the men's 5000m:

10 852 Barnicle, Chris Unattached 13:53.63P

That's a PR for Chris, whose previous best was 13:56.43 from the 2008 SEC (outdoor) Championships. That was when he was still running for Arkansas. Now he's at New Mexico for graduate school, with a year of eligibility left and it's great to see him healthy and running fast!

Husky Classic Complete Results

Other Alumni Results

Hard as it is to imagine, there were two other meets going on within jogging distance of BU yesterday.

Harvard hosted a tri-meet with Yale and Princeton, and David Smith competed in the shot put (13.47m / 44-02.50) and weight throw (14.37m / 47-01.75).

Meanwhile, Wesleyan competed at the MIT Invitational, and Scott Cole ran what I believe is a personal best of 2:41.76 in the 1000m on MIT's flat and unforgiving indoor track.