Weekend Two

With rain the last 22 out of 24 days there has been absolutely nothing to look foward to. Unless your a runner on the Sayville Running Company team, then there is always something to look foward to. Before I can look foward I must look to the past and share with you the details.

For starters lets go back to Thursday of last week when the WeatherMen were calling for a weekend that was going to be a wash out. That was not making me happy. When it finally came to Race Day Saturday, the rain was no where to be seen. However its ugly step sister was here, Heat and Humidity. When I felt the thickness of the air that morning I was hoping for some type of drizzle to happen, unfortunately that was not going to happen.

When I arrived at the SHWACHMAN DIAMOND DASH I went over to the registration and signed up table. After signing up I headed to the SRC tent to start my stretches. While I was stretching everyone started turning up. While this wasn't a team race it was a Sayville Summer Series Race and also a LITF individual points race so the SRC gang was out in force.

My duty for the race was to pace Paul Murphy to a 518 first mile, to help him get under his 1630 goal. Kevin Beach was going to see how long he could hang on with us. Adam was going to work with Soltan to get him around the course at a good clip. Chaklos, Karnik, Connors and several other SRC Racers were out there to lay down a good time.

The race went off, and the best part was that an Old Man in cargo pants and a polo shirt sprinted to the front. He ran with the leader for a quater of a mile, all while he had his keys, cell phone and change gingling in his pocket. Once that was done with I settled at the front of a pack filled with Murph, Beach, and a ton of high school kids, I was running at a pace that I thought was hard enough to get Murphy to his goal. Unfortunately we reached the mile about 10 seconds off, at that point I surged to the 2 mile and continued from there. I was starting to feel good and looking to push it over the last kilometer of the race.

As we approached the turn around I was getting ready to dig in. We turned around and crossed onto the other side of the road onto new fresh black top. That was were my energy and many other runners energy was sapped from them. I coasted in unsatisfied with the job I did out there. Murphy was 20 seconds off his goal, however Beach hung in there long enough to have a stellar time. He recorded a personal best by 17 seconds lowering it to 17:11. So good job beach.

Overall this race was freaking awesome, it has a great vibe to it. The amount of support for the race was tremendous. It was so good that they did not have enough chips and race numbers. Check out the results to the Diamond Dash. It was a great job done by the Kolar Family, Congratulations to a Race well done.

With two races down in the Sayville Summer Series, it is heating up, two 4 milers remain. Before then you can check the SRC Racers out at the Firecracker 5k on July 5th. The SRC team will be out in full force and is looking to dominate the race. See you all there!