Geoff Lambert '08 -- The Red Pack started to get into the heart of their indoor season this past weekend at Denison with the NCAC Relays. The track team won this meet three years ago and this was the goal when they arrived at Denison. At this meet, the team runs different events than the standard indoor track meet. There is a distance medley (1200,400,800,1600), a sprint medley (200,200,400,800), and a 4x800 relay, just to name some of the events we do not typically run. The distance medley was Geoff Lambert, Wade Heiny, Nathan Bates, and Hugh Jackson. They entered the meet with the intentions of running at close to 10 minutes as possible (we were trying to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships). We left the meet somewhat disappointed because not only did we not run the time we wanted to, but we lost to Denison in the process. Needless to say our last few track sessions have been with this loss in mind. The sprint medley was made up of all sprinters, but they still ran well, taking 3rd overall. The 4x800 relay was made up of Hugh Jackson, John Henry, Micah Milliman, and Dennis Frazee. They ran smart and ran tough while muscling out a 3rd place finish. Frazee and Milliman also ran the 5,000m before this, running times of 15:45.13 and 16:23.29, respectively. The distance team has been depleted over the last few weeks, but we are starting to see our hard work pay off and will be getting some key runners back in the near future.

This next weekend, the Wabash Track Team travels to rival DePauw. The meet should be a key meet for the distance team. These past two weeks have been devoted to maintaining our base that was established early in December. As a result, we have been running higher mileage and longer workouts. This Saturday will conclude a two week cycle which means that we will key in on our races to see where we are at fitness and speed wise. As of right now, we have entries in the 800m, the 3,000m, the 5,000m, the mile, and we may also have a Distance Medley Relay. We are at a point in our season where we need fan support the most in order to get through these next few weeks, so if you could make the 30 minute drive to DePauw this weekend we would love to see you there. If not, we will see all of you the following weekend when we race at home.