Jermyn Looks for 'One Good Race'
4/29/2005 12:00:00 AM | Track & Field
Casey Jermyn doesn't look at it as frustration. He simply sees opportunity.
"I feel like I'm in great shape, I know I'm fit, I know I'm ready to race well," says Jermyn, Montana State's senior distance runner who has battled illness and injury throughout his senior season. "You just have to wait to pop out that one good race."
Jermyn entered his senior campaign as a four-time Big Sky Champion with high hopes for an outstanding campaign, but the problems started early. He battled an injury throughout the cross country season in the fall, then has struggled with a recurring upper respiratory infection throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons.
"The season got started pretty bad, and it's been a struggle," he said. "It doesn't take much of a sickness to really compromise your training if you're a distance runner."
While the previous six months have offered frustration, this weekend offers hope. Jermyn and the Bobcats travel to Missoula Saturday for the annual Cat-Griz dual. The meet holds special meaning for Jermyn, a senior graduating next week. Not only will he be competing against the Grizzlies for the last time, and "for the final time on Montana soil," he says, but he makes a return to his native western Montana. The Plains native will have "all kinds of family" at Saturday's meet. "It will be a lot of fun with them there."
The injuries have backed Jermyn into a corner of sorts. He hasn't reached an NCAA Midwest Regional qualifying mark for the 5,000 meters yet, the race he'll run on Saturday at Dornblaser Stadium. "I've gotten regional qualifying marks at altitude before," he says. "I'm not afraid of that."
Jermyn hopes to use his conference championship experience to his -- and MSU's -- benefit in two weeks in Flagstaff, where Montana State chases its first-ever Big Sky men's track title. "I've raced in a lot of conference championships," he says. "The thing you have to realize is that when you look at the best times list and see those great marks, a lot of those were early in the season at one really fast race. People don't usually run their fastest time of the year at conference. You just have to go out and compete."
"I feel like I'm in great shape, I know I'm fit, I know I'm ready to race well," says Jermyn, Montana State's senior distance runner who has battled illness and injury throughout his senior season. "You just have to wait to pop out that one good race."
Jermyn entered his senior campaign as a four-time Big Sky Champion with high hopes for an outstanding campaign, but the problems started early. He battled an injury throughout the cross country season in the fall, then has struggled with a recurring upper respiratory infection throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons.
"The season got started pretty bad, and it's been a struggle," he said. "It doesn't take much of a sickness to really compromise your training if you're a distance runner."
While the previous six months have offered frustration, this weekend offers hope. Jermyn and the Bobcats travel to Missoula Saturday for the annual Cat-Griz dual. The meet holds special meaning for Jermyn, a senior graduating next week. Not only will he be competing against the Grizzlies for the last time, and "for the final time on Montana soil," he says, but he makes a return to his native western Montana. The Plains native will have "all kinds of family" at Saturday's meet. "It will be a lot of fun with them there."
The injuries have backed Jermyn into a corner of sorts. He hasn't reached an NCAA Midwest Regional qualifying mark for the 5,000 meters yet, the race he'll run on Saturday at Dornblaser Stadium. "I've gotten regional qualifying marks at altitude before," he says. "I'm not afraid of that."
Jermyn hopes to use his conference championship experience to his -- and MSU's -- benefit in two weeks in Flagstaff, where Montana State chases its first-ever Big Sky men's track title. "I've raced in a lot of conference championships," he says. "The thing you have to realize is that when you look at the best times list and see those great marks, a lot of those were early in the season at one really fast race. People don't usually run their fastest time of the year at conference. You just have to go out and compete."
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