CATCHING UP WITH … The last time The Examiner spoke with Alisa Harvey, she had just won the 400-meter, 800-meter and 1-mile races at last year’s USA Masters Indoor Championships. Nearly one year later, Harvey is still keeping busy on the track.
She ran 2 minutes, 9.14 seconds in the elite 800-meter run at the 51st annual Mount San Antonio College Relays in April. Harvey, 44, raced against runners of all ages, including college runners, in the invitation-only race.
After that race, she says, “I just kind of laid low.” She did some coaching and trained with a woman who ran in the Marine Corps Marathon.
While “laying low,” Harvey won the 5K SOME (So Others Might Eat) Thanksgiving Turkey Trot for Hunger in November, finishing with a time of 18:11. Once again, she beat countless runners younger than she out of the nearly 1,500 entrants. The second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-place finishers, for example, were 27, 37, 9 and 40 years old, respectively.
Harvey injured her foot in January, so she won’t race in this year’s Masters Indoor Championships in Boston later this month. Instead, she has opted to race in the East Region Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships next weekend. She has registered for the 40-to-44-year-old women’s 800-meter and 1-mile races.
Despite her injury, she “hobbled” her way through the Thomas Hartshorne Masters Memorial Mile on Jan. 23, finishing second with a time of 5:09.
“It’s better now,” she said of her foot. “Throughout the whole absence, I realized I was a little iron-deficient.”
As for the results?
“We’ll see next week.”
