preliminaries

It’s time to start reaching peak form when the preliminaries will take place on Thursday at Birmingham High in preparation for next Thursday’s finals at the same venue.

It was so hot on Saturday that a more than three-hour heat delay was imposed in the middle of the Southern Section Division 3 track and field preliminaries at Yorba Linda.

The City Section track preliminaries and finals will be run on Birmingham High’s new Mondo track, which is like running on a carpet and improves times.

Last week he ran a personal best of 15:03 at the preliminaries, so he put together back-to-back weeks reaching peak form.

He focused instead on mental preparation, which might explain his confidence after the lackluster preliminaries.