WHAT I CARED ABOUT is getting the first race knocked out on the calendar, coming off of a little bit of an injury off of indoors. Kind of monkey off the back feeling off of today and it wasn’t a complete disaster. So that’s kind of the positive takeaway.
Long a fixture on the SoCal track scene, Brian Russell won the Arcadia Invitational 2-lapper in ’76, was the national Junior 1500 runner-up the next year and went on to set a UCLA record in the event at 3:42.10. These days he’s frequently involved on the production side of major track telecasts.
