12/10/11
I just kind of knew. Before the gun went off, before the six women gather to their lanes, before the heat before them goes off; Jen is going to win her heat in the 200 meter sprint. I didn't know yesterday, or earlier this morning or even before/ while she was running her 400 meter 90 minutes or so ago. But sometime in the last thirty minutes I just knew it. Jen is going to win her heat and she isn't seeded with some super fast time, just the 29.40 that she ran at Reggie Lewis a week ago. Still the fastest she has run is a 28.57 and that was a couple years ago so all the women in her heat are in that ability. The race goes off and as the remaining 50 meters approach Jen's face is locked in on the finish line, arms paddling her down the river of track that leads to the white segment running perpendicular to the runners. Clearly ahead of the field, the next competitor a 29.10, Jen finishes in 28.80. It is a season's best, and the best in the last two years. It was nice to have a hunch come true.
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