M50 Brian Pilcher runs sensational 15:47 for track 5000
heat, and with three heats of 5K’s left . . . the
auto-timer came over to me and said he couldn’t do it anymore. Too dark
to take pictures.”
Tom continued:
We have no lights on the track but the surrounding
buildings have a few so you can actually see things along the
homestretch.
But not enough so you can film the finish. So I jumped up
and became the timer (I was backup hand-timer anyway). We had five
watches going and about 10 of my distance runners on the finish making
an impromptu finish-chute.
In Brian’s heat, one of our runners
(SF State) took the pace through 5:00/10:01 and then Linen from Chico
dropped a 69 with another one of my guys chasing after him. After that,
it was off to the races. A great field with those two at 15:27/15:29
and then the pack started to flow in at 15:39. I don’t have Brian’s
official hand-time yet as I had to leave immediately after the meet to
pick up my kid.

 national cross country championships.
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