By Cooper Chadwick
Hoping to break his school record in his senior year, Salina South’s Elian Moreno is excited for this upcoming season.
Last season Moreno ran 17:06 at state and hopes to break that this year in his very first meet. He hopes his offseason training will have him prepared.
“I have been involved in a club with other kids who are in it as well. An area I would like to improve is keeping my pace in a race at VO2 max level and making sure that lactic acid can be handled through the race.” Moreno said. “I worked on this in my off season with my training by doing some mile repeats and more intensity based workouts at thresholds and lactic thresholds.”
Moreno’s role for his team is to lower their overall score with faster times and his drive for this season is spite.
“I wanted to be better and one of the best to show other people who talked down on me, and if I could put that dedication and hard work into boxing, then I could do that for running as well to show people what that training will pay off,” Moreno said.
Moreno’s plan for his future is very specific. He hopes to keep running at the collegiate level and be able to compete at a high level there, but he also has plans to help others out with a Law school degree.
“I want to make things right in society when there are things that are corrupt in the system,” Moreno said.
