I won the 10,000 meters track race gold medal at a 1975 AAU Junior Championship held at the University of Chicago. It seems I broke the meet record for the event that had lasted since 1938.
By the next spring, amid various difficulties, I was not in that good of shape. So come the big invitational at the University of Tennessee, running the same event, I was lapped twice by Volunteer running legend Doug Brown, who had already graduated, but was running the event to qualify for the 1976 Olympic Trials.
Doug qualified. Me, I got told to move to the second lane, so as not to get in Doug's way.
That was only fair. ---Brian Powell