Track and Field Blogs - Trevor Dunbar

So it has been quite awhile since my last blog, sorry guys. I know everyone has been anxiously awaiting this and finally I have something worth talking about haha. Since my last blog describing the Boston Indoor Mile I have battled an achilles tendon injury and the Alaskan winter. Luckily I has able to work my way into descent shape in time for my SoCal trip.

Coming into Arcadia I was wanting to get 4:36 mile pace down pat. Unfortunately my hometown track has been covered with snow and thick ice. You may be thinking that I thrive in those kind of conditions from my video, but that was pretty light compared to the present condition. I did however get some good workouts in on the roads and was even able to squeeze in a workout in Anchorage during a long layover on Thursday. Anchorage has a freakish 400 meter indoor track, so running there is always nice.

Watching the races on Friday and Saturday was extremely exciting for me. Seeing a 9:09 when the c heat of the 3200 Friday night was unreal! Congrats to everyone in the 3200 actually those were awesome races. The depth of that event was so crazy, part of me really wanted to add to that depth but still I was thrilled to throw down something good in the 5k. For the most part as the distance gets longer I get better.

The warmup was kind of interesting for me. I jogged on the streets away from the warmup area for about 20 minutes. When I got back to the warm up field my bag that I left with my spikes and phone in was gone. Bad move on my part to leave the Arcadia backpack (that everyone had) all alone. It remains a mystery to me how the backpack returned to the field after the meet but to my surprise when my mom and I left the stadium there it was. I want to give a shout out to Zack Torres for letting me borrow his spikes, It was hard to find someone with the same baby feet as me.

So I lined up for the race a little rattled from the whole shoe situation, but the gun had a medicinal effect when it went off and I was in competitive mode instantly. I did a fine job grinding out 69 (snickers) until I couldn't last. Wow did I really just say that, haha but its true the last mile my pace faltered to 71-72 seconds and brought it home in 14:33. I was really happy with my effort out there and I can't wait to tee it up under the lights again. Until then I'll be putting in the training and getting into shape. Look out because I'm hoping to go sub 9 in the 32 before my next lower-48 trip! Peace.