There is no break in sight for Captain Regan, who acknowledges that running is "a seven-day-a-week, year-long" commitment Workouts are now in progress for the indoor track season, which begins early in December.

After his Harvard career ends this spring. Regan plans to continue running, probably focusing on the steeplechase. His post-graduation prospects include study at a British university, and he is currently applying for several fellowships. One coach at the University of Birmingham has already expressed an interest in helping Regan improve, via the system of daily double workouts which has already produced several British Olympic steeplechasers. Regan also plans to continue his research on British imperial policy after World War I--the subject of his senior thesis in the History department.

Regan modestly denies that he has made any major personal contribution to the cross country team, preferring to credit any success to the "group experience." He says. "The only distinctive thing I did a Captain was getting people fired up" before the meets.

His fellow runners, however, remember him of certain other traits. One of these, according to McNulty, is the addition of "Reganisms" to the team's philosophy. One example of a Reganism comes when someone announces he is going to take a course pass/fail--that venerable Harvard option. Regan turns to the gleeful scholar-athlete and remarks. "Life is not pass/fail."

Regan's coach and teammates describe him as "optimistic," "intense," and "charismatic." Leading the cross country team presented a challenge that he confronted with his usual focused and positive energy. And at no time during his years at Harvard, as his academic record will attest, did he allow athletics to arrest his intellectual development.

Despite these numerable successes, Regan does have doubts at times McNulty claims that "his two worst fears are marring the wrong woman and having derelict children." But Regan says he has learned over the years that "the team experience is the most valuable thing--even though you sometimes have to make time for it by sacrificing something else, it's always worth it.