Runners to Watch Tomorrow Night at the Armory in NYC.

 

Tomorrow the men's indoor track team will travel back to the place where, last week, they recorded a flurry of impressive showings, capped by freshman Malik Reynolds' school-record breaking high-jump performance.

The Quakers will compete at the Great Dane Classic the renowned 168th Street Armory in New York City's Washington Heights. This week, Penn's fastest miler Jeff Weinstein will make his senior year debut. Battling injury since this past summer, the senior, who clocked a 4:08 mile last year indoors and a 4:11 at this meet one year ago, has strung together a block of strong training and hopes to be near his Personal Best of 8:28 in the 3k (almost double the distance of his mile specialty) tomorrow. Although still trying to build up an aerobic base of miles, Weinstein's performance tomorrow evening at the over-distance event will indicate how his training is progressing - and what we should hope to expect when he steps down to the mile. If he runs well, expect him to climb Penn's all-time list later this winter in the mile run.

Junior Ryan Cunningham will also compete at the meet tomorrow. Last week he finished the 3k in 8:31. This week Cunningham hopes to set a new Personal Best as he runs the mile and takes a shot at replacing Weinstein as Penn's fastest miler.

Although tomorrow's meet is small and of relatively minor importance to the Quakers in the scheme of their season or their year of competition, strong performances from Weinstein and Cunningham could auger big things to come for Quakers milers.

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