In the spring of 1975 I started the season much better than expected leading with a 4:26 mile at the BYU indoor Track meet in January. A full 10 second improvement over my previous best of 4:36. Throughout the season I was undefeated in the Mile run. At the BYU invitational 4 runners from our team gave up our usual events to focus on the Sprint Medley Relay. The state record was 3:33. The relay consisted of run 4 runners. 2 running 220 yards, one running 440 yards and one running 880 yards. Each of us were in the to 10 in the state in our events. Clayton Dumus ran the lead 220 in 22 seconds Gary Sorensen ran the next 220 between 22 and 23, Matt Montoya ran the 440 in 49.8 seconds. I took over and had to run 2 laps which was half the race. I took off fast with 27 for the first 220 27 seconds for the second 220, coming through one lap in 54 seconds. It was too fast I pushed hard the 3rd 220 and ran about 28 seconds. I was flying along way under the record. The last 220 turned out to be a bear. the last 220 I ran 34 seconds coming in with a time of 1:56. I had slowed considerably however we broke the Utah State Record in a time of 3:31.7 We had taken the state record down by 2 seconds. We were pretty happy about our efforts. Our time that year put us on the US Track and Field Honor Roll for the 1975 season. This was to honor the top 10 performances in the nation in each event.
Now 36 years later we still hold the Utah Sprint Medley relay record for the 4A classification.
It was exciting to trying for something and achieve our goal. Very chariots of fire.
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