Track and Field Blogs - Scott Bauhs

There is a game that American distance runners play every year. It is called "pick the best early season 5k." This year I went with the wild card at Brutus Hamilton. It was a hard choice given that I ran a good 5k last year at Mt. Sac and that I have never run at Stanford with out coming away with a P.R. Given that Mt. Sac was a great race I may have already lost the "pick the best early season 5k" game but I am still excited about my race on Friday.

This will be my first time on UC Berkeley's track since I qualified for the state meet in 2004. That race was a P.R. so I certainly have fond memories of this track as well (I got second in that race and the person that beat me, Yosef Ghebrey will be running in this race as well, hopefully I can beat him this time). I chose this race because the NYRR runners chose to help out this year with pace setters in hopes that it would inspire some fast runners to come. When the NYRR tries to do something usually it goes well. It helped my decision that the race is about a half hour from my home and that I spent several hours of my youth walking through the used record and clothing stores on Telegraph Ave.

In the race I get to race one of the people I have admired ever since I learned about him, Kevin Sullivan. He has been running forever and has been running fast times year in and year out. His consistency is something that I aspire to and I can only hope to have a career like his. I am also looking forward to racing Jorge Torres, Bobby Curtis and Sammy Chelenga (hopefully he and Bobby don't ditch the 5k for the 10k as they are double entered) and all the others.

If any of you reading this are from the East bay, you better be at the race. It is going to be a good one.