Double Dose of Heps in Boston
February 4, 2010
NBC Sports recently interviewed Anna Pierce, who is remembered around these parts as Brown University’s Anna Willard. She is preparing for the Boston Indoor Games and has set forth some lofty ambitions for 2010.
Our favorite question of the bunch: What does it mean for your training to now have a healthy Morgan Uceny [ed. note: who ran at Cornell] in the group day in and day out?
Pierce’s answer:
It’s awesome. Having her on has been such a breath of fresh air. Last year, I had to do most of the stuff by myself. Jenn (Rhines) was joking with me the other day about how I had to always invent ways to work my workout into somebody else’s workout. It was like, ‘Jenn, what are you running? A 1200? Ok, I’m running a 400m so I’ll start 10 seconds behind you and I’ll catch you.’ I really thrive in a group setting so I enjoy being around other people. Having Morgan has been fantastic. She’s really good at altitude and surprisingly really good at the longer stuff. I was surprised because she hasn’t done that many tempos or longer intervals, but she’s been really good at that stuff. I can see her growing into a pretty amazing 1500-meter runner, maybe even the 3K even though she’s not really interested in it right now. We complement each other in training really well.
Both she and Uceny are scheduled to run in the 1,000m at the Boston Indoor Games and we will be on the scene. For the full NBC interview, please click here.
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