WOW. To my absolute surprise I finished first in the 80 to 84-year-old 800 m finals today at the national senior games in Pittsburgh. I lead the field of 13 runners from start to finish. I actually ran and negative race. The first 400 m was 139 and the second 400 was 137. The winning margin was a remarkable 18 seconds. I approached this race with a ton of apprehension about various nicks and bumps that I felt in my legs over the last month. It seemed like every time I finished a work out something else was aching. During and after the race I felt no issues whatsoever so tomorrow I get to run 1500 m and I am as apprehensive about that as I could possibly be but I already have one championship locked in and that is pretty fucking cool.