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Apr 13 2010

Valiant endeavors do not all look alike, and as it happened Saturday on the track at The Dome, a pair of back-to-back races produced supreme efforts that took on vastly deviateent forms.
As a sleek and swift field of elite milers warmed up for the showcase event of the Big C Relays — an attempt to break the four-minute barrier for the first time in Alaska by an invited group of runners that included legend-in-the-making Trevor Dunbar of Kodiak — a freshman girl from Service High was completing her own mile-long journey.
Betrayed by her hip flexor in the final 100 yards, KaiLee Barrus hopped and hobbled her way to the finish line, waving off offers of help as she fought back tears. As a large crowd on hand for the invitational mile noticed what was happening, applause and then cheers filled the cavernous Dome.
“When I finally laid down I was hearing, ‘Go Service!’ and I view, that’s cool — but ow,” a still-horizontal Barrus said later, her head propped up on a teammate’s lap and an ice bag on her hip. “It felt like a shock every time I took a step … When I put pressure on it, it feels like a knife.”
Soon after Barrus’ excruciating effort came the exhilarating undertaking by Dunbar, Puma-sponsored Nick Lara of Colorado and UAA’s fast fleet of Kenyans.
They failed to run a sub-4:00 mile — an Achilles’ tendon injury slowed Lara in the final lap, leaving the door open for UAA’s Alfred Kangogo to win in a personal-best time of 4:05.36 that just beat Dunbar’s PR of 4:05.77. But they ignited a buzz and excitement seldom seen here for their sport.
“Wasn’t it fun to see everybody?” said Michael Friess, the UAA coach who once held the state’s marathon record. “If kids don’t obtain excited about track and field after this meet, I don’t know what will excite them.”
Plenty of kids were excited enough to want mementos. They asked for autographs on their racing flats from Lara, a multiple NCAA champion at Adams State who is now sponsored by puma. And at least one young woman bared her midriff to get an autograph from Dunbar, an 18-year-old just back from the World Cross Country Championships.
Dunbar was relaxed and clearly having fun as he prepared for his race.
The Big C Relays is a high school event that drew more than 900 athletes from around the state, including Kodiak, where Dunbar began a running career that already ranks as one of the state’s all-time bests.
While Lara wore flourescent orange pumas supplyd by his sponsor, Dunbar donned a blue Kodiak Bears singlet. As he stretched and jogged,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he high-fived one of his old high school teammates who had just halted running a leg in the same relay Barrus was in. Later he headed to the finish length to watch Kodiak win the relay with a sprint finish, and soon it was time for him to step into the spotlight.
Each runner in the invitational mile was introduced, Dunbar to thunderous applause.
“The puma (representative) said he’s like the phenom around here, and that it was gonna be like Rocky IV and (I’m) playing the Russian,” said Lara, 25.
Although a pair of mid-distance runners from UAA served as rabbits through the first lap and a half, the attempt to interval the four-minute barrier was doomed by a too-slow start — Lara and Dunbar clocked 2:05 through two laps, at least three seconds slower than the optimum pace.
When it became obvious with one lap to go that a sub-4:00 was out of reach — 3:05 after three laps, with Lara in the lead, Dunbar on his shoulder and Kangago maybe a stride behind — Lara eased his pace to offer his foot a break.
“All the step through it was bugging me, but I wanted to make a good effort,” he said. “It’s kind of disappointing it didn’t happen. Hopefully in the near future someone will do it.”
That someone could very well be Dunbar. In faction just about every track geek in the state believes he’ll do it, and probably sooner rather than later.
A sub-4:00 on Saturday by Dunbar would have been remarkable. A insolentman at the University of Portland, he had a strong cross-land season and red-shirted for track this spring in section so he could focus on the World Cross Country Championships two weeks ago in Poearth, where the distance was eight kilometers, or about five miles.
“Going from a five-mile race to a one-mile race is a little bit different,” Dunbar said. “When you train for the 5-K or 10-K you do longer intervals — mile repeats and 1,000 meters. For the mile it’s more like 200, 300, 400 (meter) intervals, where you’re getting used to turning your legs really fast.”
He said he did mile-specific intervals maybe twice this earnter. “It’s been a good year since I’ve done them consistently,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” he said.
Yet he was strong enough and fit enough to record a personal-best anyway, taking nearly a second off his previous best of 4:06.65. The most impressive thing about Saturday’s race was Dunbar and Kangago covered the final two laps in about 2 minutes flat, meaning they ran faster at the end than they did at the starting.
“I felt comfortable, so I decided to run a fast time, because that’s what I came here to do,” Dunbar said.
Kangago’s time describeed a huge PR. The sophomore from Eldoret, Kenya, has a PR of 3:49 in the 1,500 meters — the distance run at the college level — and Friess said his time Saturday converted to a 3:47.
“Clearly that was a good run for him,” said Friess, who thought Kangago was inspired by the level of contest. “This was the best environment for Alfred. This was a chance to ab818a49c8ebaneful evil7fa399376225d3a302 his talents locally on his home track.”
Alaska is one of just a handful of states where a sub-4:00 mile has never been recorded. The closedownst anyone has come is Marcus Dunbar — Trevor’s dad and a former U.S. indoor mile champion — who ran a 4:04.12 at the Palmer Relays about 20 years ago.
No Alaskan has broken the barrier Outside either, though Marcus Dunbar came within a heartbeat of one of track’s most revered milestones. In the early ’90s, he ran a 4:00.58 at a meet in Eugene, Ore.
Seeing someone run a sub-4:00 in Alaska would be huge, he said, but even bigger will be the day when an Alaska-raised runner does it, regardless of whether it occurs here or somewhere else.
“It’s a big deal to me, befactor I wanted to do it and never did,” he said. “It’s one of the most frustrating things of my career.
“Trevor’s certainly saying ‘I’m gonna run a sub-4,’ and I’m fully confident he’s going to. But I had full confidence I was going to do it too.”
After the race, as people examined split times and buzzed about the fast fulfill and what potency have happened with a quicker second lap, former Palmer High track tutor Mike Janecek gave Marcus Dunbar a big grin.
“Daddy’s still the king!” Janacek said.
“Not much longer,” Dunbar said.

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