Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Senior Indoor Track Runner Sarah Colon: A Look at her DHS Running Career



By Holly Gordon

Senior Sarah Colon is currently in her final season of Varsity Indoor Track after her long four year track career. Colon began to competitively run when she joined Darien’s Cross Country team in the fall season of her freshman year. She ran Varsity Cross Country, soon becoming a key runner for the team. After a successful fall season, Sarah was excited to run Indoor Track, testing her running talent on a different type of terrain. Her freshman year, she regularly ran the 1600 meter. Her best time was 6 minutes and 5 seconds. Colon continued running her freshman year on the Varsity Outdoor Track team in the spring season. She greatly improved, running the same 1600 meter she ran in the previous Indoor season approximately 30 seconds faster.

Colon continued to run her sophomore year, exploring a new event, the 3200 meter race, during Indoor and Outdoor track. Although running a different event was good experience, she soon realized running the 1600 meter was a better fit. After exponential improvements her first two years of high school, Sarah felt that her junior year did not produce the same rapid growth. However, Colon still ran the 3200 meter event in under 12 minutes, a huge accomplishment hard for anyone to achieve. “Running makes me less stressed,” Colon said.

For friends and fellow team members, it is no secret that Colon has impressive talent. “I hear Sarah is better at running than she is at being beautiful and she’s pretty beautiful,” senior Claire Treesh said.

Support Colon and the rest of the Indoor Track team in their next competition, the Yale Invitational at Yale University on Friday, January 18th

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