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Right now, students are running around to find reserve reading and taking midterms. That as, most likely, what the Harvard men's track team's Brad Bunney should be doing too. But Bunney prefers to run the show himself Instead of being in Lamont today. Bunney is at the National Championships in Syracuse, N.Y. By setting a personal record (1:51:36) in the 880-yd. run at the Greater Boston Championships in early February, Bunney became the only Crimson trackster qualified to put fear into challengers from all over the country...
Four years ago, Bunney was Connecticut State Champion in the half mile as a senior at Guilford High Just a few years later the Quincy House senior is once again the cream of the crop of his trade, the art of running faster than anybody else...
...Bunney started out as a quarter miler in high school, but on his coach's recommendation, he decided to give the half mile a shot. "I really enjoy 1500 meters, but it's a bit too long," Bunney says of the change. "It's a different type of tired," he says about the quarter mile, but then again, "It's a longer being good...
...matter what he runs, however, Bunney seems to pull it off. Take this year's Greater Boston Championships and Big Three meet, for example. At the GBC's Bunney only ran the 880-yd. race, while at the Big Three he raced both the 1500- and 800-meter runs...
...Biochemistry concentrator's deceptively simple formula for victory works something like this. Starting out modestly in the middle of the field, Bunney makes sure that the pace is neither too sluggish nor too breathtaking for his liking. Then he surreptitiously reads his opponents, always keeping an eye on who's in the lead. And that's exactly what the race looks like until the thinclads approach the last lap and a half...