Speaking of records . . .

Delaney had a birthday party to attend, but the rest of us went to the Oregon Twilight Track Meet at Hayward Field in Eugene Saturday night.

The highlight of the evening was the running of a rare 4x1 Mile Relay staged by some Duck distance running stars. The scene became festive when officials invited spectators to line the track to cheer on the attempt. If you look carefully you will find Therese, Tiernan and myself in the crowd. (Thanks to colleague Kevin Clark at the Register-Guard for passing on the photo.) The relay team missed their goal of clocking the distance in under 16 minutes, but they did manage to break the old meet record by by a few hundredths of a second running the 4 miles in 16 minutes, 3.24 seconds.

Tiernan also managed to get autographs from 5 recent and former Olympians who still live or workout in Eugene. Pretty neat night.

Chris

Tiernan breaks 100M record

Record Falls from Chris Pietsch on Vimeo.

Exciting news out of Creswell, Oregon this week. Tiernan ran 14:33 seconds in the 100 meter dash at a track meet two weeks ago. Her time broke the previous 6th grade girl's Creswell Middles School record by 17/100s of a second. Meet officials didn't pass along the time to her coach until this week. She will get her name on a plaque in the new school gym later this spring.