Armstrong Runs Two 5K Races In One Day
Nathan Armstrong completed two 5km races within a 5-hour time span.
The day started at 9:00am with Armstrong winning the North Jersey Championships comfortably by 24 secs, in a season’s best time – 16:21 on the Garrett Mountain Cross Country course, helping his team Pompton Lakes to a 3rd place team finish.
Armstrong then came back in the afternoon to race to another season’s best on the track at the GSTC Fall HS Showcase Quantine Games 5km, crossing the line 11th with a time of 15:31.
Armstrong’s father Terrance Armstrong said, “Given the early morning cross country race fatigue in his legs, on the drive down we figured that a sub-16 would be a comfortable target to shoot for & put a solid 5km track result on paper.
“The plan was to run 5mins/mile [3:07 per km] pace thru the first 2km – 3km, he got stuck in that rhythm and held pace, clicking off 75′s the whole race, finishing his last 200m in 31 seconds, with the last 400 clocked in 67 seconds. Pure determination at its best.”
