On Wednesday I ran 200 meters in 34.9 seconds! It was the second-to-last interval in a set of 20 x 200m. I ran some of them on a track and some on a hill. My 34.9 was on the track, of course. Now, you might be wondering why a runner who has run 24 consecutive 37-second 200’s in a race would brag about running just one 200 in a little under 35 seconds. Two reasons: 1. It’s been a while since I’ve done it. 2. Alberto dared me to brag about it on my blog It’s funny how you can have different feelings about the same numbers at different times as a runner. If I had run a 200 in 34.9 seconds before competing in the 5000m and 10,000m at the 2008 Olympics I would have been concerned. But when I did it two and a half months after giving birth to my son, Colt, I was excited. So excited that Alberto dared me to brag about it.