alumni+update

John called his parents his NCAA qualifying race on Saturday to tell them that he’ll be home for dinner this Thursday! He placed 5th in the NCAA Division III New England qualifier at Connecticut College (out of 330 runners), running his best cross-country race ever, beating his best 8K time by a minute, finishing in 25 minutes 8 seconds. This means he will travel here to race next weekend in the national championship race, which happens to be at St. Olaf College: http://www.stolaf.edu/athletics/07ncaaxc/
 * John Swain qualifies for NCAA Division III Championship**

Here is Connecticut College’s news release from the race, in which they mention the top five finishers (thereby including John in the fourth paragraph): http://aspen.conncoll.edu/news/3832.cfm You will note that the home town address of the winner is, interestingly enough, “Eldoret Rift Valley, Kenya,” although he attends Williams college. John was ten seconds behind.

Here is Colby’s version of the race: http://colby.edu/athletics_cs/news/cc11-10-07.cfm

John is also working on his senior thesis that is due in a few weeks. Something about physiological response during meditation. John claims he kind of meditated during the race today, not thinking about anything or feeling any pain, until the last half mile when he pushed hard and passed five guys.