Coaches’ Blog

A mere 72 hours after Jesse Faller broke his 5k school record, Tufts alum Matt Lacey dominated his expectations in his first ever Boston Marathon.  Lacey still maintains a stronghold on the Tufts 10k record with his impressive performance of 30:04.  He is easily one of the most selfless athletes that I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with.  Pair that up with his tenacious racing style and his never-ending quest for perfection, and you can see how sad I was to see him go.

Hey Ethan,

As I’m sure you saw the marathon went way better than expected. I ran a very even pace throughout, and felt really good up through the 21 mile mark. The last 5 miles were tough, but mostly because my quads hurt, and I was afraid they were going to cramp up at any moment. I fueled and hydrated very well and ran relaxed. Going back to the first week in March when my knee started hurting my weekly mileage was: 18, 26, 35, 32, 42, 55, 40, so honestly I wasn’t even thinking about breaking 2:30, but the first 5, and then 10 miles felt easy, so I kept going, waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it never did.

The real reason that I’m writing is to say that all the Tufts support I heard during the race was fantastic. Wearing the brown top was a great decision, I never went longer than 3 minutes without hearing “Go Tufts” the whole race, and beyond hearing the team going crazy at the end, I saw alumni out at the old spot on heartbreak hill, as well as TUXCTF alumni at other points on the course (and there were probably more I didn’t see).  I just wanted to say that I couldn’t have been more proud to be a Jumbo, and best of luck hosting NESCACs this weekend.

Lacey

Yes, this guy ran 14:19 and 30:04.

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