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Brian Leung Featured in Town Topics
June 09, 2012 | Men's Track and Field
Ending PU Track Career by Competing at NCAAs, Distance Star Leung Aiming for Peak Performance
Bill Alden, Town Topics (6/6/12)
"This summer went smoothly; a bunch of teammates and I went out to Park City Utah to train and work," said Leung, noting that there was a core group of 15 Princeton runners engaged in the high altitude training.
"I arrived on campus, pretty fit and ready to go. I definitely bumped up my mileage out there, I was up to 110-120 miles a week."
But after the high of his summer experience, Leung hit a valley in the latter stages of his cross country season, starting with an Ivy League Heptagonal championship meet that was hit by a freak October snowstorm.
"It was really cold out there in a singlet and shorts; I got pretty sick afterwards," said Leung, a local running legend during his high school career at WW/P-S.
"It wiped me out for the rest of the cross country. Then I had a weird fatigue in my quads; I didn't know what it was. I took a couple of weeks off and the doctors diagnosed it as a femoral stress reaction. It took me out for six weeks; I didn't run indoors."
With only a few months left in his Tiger career, Leung decided to aim for the summit of college running.
"Coming off the injury, coach [Steve Dolan] and I put together a race plan," said Leung. "The one goal was to make the NCAAs and run well there."