David Ribich of the Brooks Beasts runs live streamed solo two-mile time trial...

An Instagram post was all I needed.

With no track and field meets upcoming anytime soon, Western Oregon graduate David Ribich (left/photo by Paul Merca) of the Brooks Beasts put it out on his social media accounts earlier in the week that he was running a two-mile solo time trial Friday.

To make things interesting, he proclaimed that he would live stream his time trial on Citius Magazine's Instagram account and for good measure, put up some Brooks Beasts apparel and a copy of his book, "Small School Big Dreams" to the person who correctly guessed his time.

With that, I took my camera and checked out the local high school in Seattle where the time trial was being run.

Since the global pandemic derailed any opportunities for live competition, Ribich, who last raced a 1500m on February 27th in Boston, decided to run this time trial after essentially training for the last ten weeks.

He was shooting for a time in the neighborhood of 8:40, but about a third of the way through the time trial, Brooks Beasts coach Danny Mackey noticed that Ribich was showing signs of fatigue from the cumulative effects of training.

Ribich ended up running 8:58.2 for the two mile time trial.

Washington alum Izaic Yorks, 2018 world championships 800m silver medalist Drew Windle, and Beasts teammate Allie Buchalski also ran controlled individual time trials at various distances, but the best solo effort of the day went to Henry Wynne (above/photo by Paul Merca), who ran a 1600m time trial in 4:06.2, after going through 800m in 2:05.8.

NOTE: Special thanks to the Brooks Beasts TC for accessing their training session.

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