Tucker Hamilton warmed up for his state-best 3200 with a 1600 and a 4x800 leg. Photo by Alan Versaw.
The featured event at Friday's Coronado Cougar Classic was supposed to be the 1600. Either Tucker Hamilton never got the memo or decided to write his own script. Whichever it was, it ended up being a very nice meet for the Rampart senior.
After finishing third in the 1600 at 4:27.29 and running a solid 4x800 leg, Hamilton seemed to be a good candidate to keep his 3200 within the range of ordinary. Fatigue gets to us all, and Hamilton had every reason to be fatigued.
For six laps, Hamilton seemed content to let Thompson Valley's Daniel Lara do the hard work of setting the pace while he merely hung on for the ride. All of that changed, however, at the beginning of the seventh lap. Hamilton went around Lara with an urgency nobody anticipated. By 100 meters into the next-to-last lap, Hamilton had already built a margin of ten meters. And the margin wasn't getting any sma...
