Josh Nadzam just can't stop doing the unexpected.

Remember Nadzam from the fall? He's the Monaca High School senior who played on the Indians' football team and ran cross country in his spare time. He did well at both sports, too, helping Monaca reach the WPIAL Class A playoffs and placing 11th in Class AA in cross country in the WPIAL championships.

This past Saturday, Nadzam pulled off another interesting double. He competed in the Central Invitational track meet, winning the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter races in the process. He also ran a leg on Monaca's 3,200-meter relay.

That evening, he played for the black team in the Roundball Classic all-star basketball game at Geneva College. He didn't score any points, but just being apart of that event after racing close to four miles in the afternoon was an accomplishment.

There's one more thing. Nadzam isn't entirely healthy after missing the final five games of the basketball season with a broken bone in his right foot.

"The injury is healed, so I'm 100 percent that way," he said. "I'm probably only about 80 percent or so with my endurance and running."

The foot injury came during a basketball practice. Nadzam was in a cast for three weeks.

Understand, this is an individual who would go run three or four miles after football practice. Staying in one place is not what he does well.

"Having the cast on drove me crazy," he said.

What does a runner do when he has a cast on his foot? He rides a stationary bike.

To keep his legs in some sort of shape, Nadzam would go to the Beaver County YMCA and ride the bike. There were some problems along the way, however.

"At first I had a 'cast' cast on it and they gave me a kind of boot to wear over it," he said. "Then they put a little different cast on it. I had a tough time at first getting the cast through the strap on the pedal on the bike, but I worked it out."

His times at the Center Invitational were solid. He won the 800 in 2 minutes, 3.58 seconds, the1,600 in 4:33.10 and the 3,200 in 10:18.31.

It's not an easy triple to accomplish. Most 3,200-meter runners do not have the speed to win the 800, plus those two events are close together in a meet with not much recovery time between them.

"We were lining up to run the 800 when they made the first call for the 3,200," Nadzam said. "I hadn't even run one event and they were calling me for another.

"I thought I'd have a pretty good chance to win the 1,600 and the 3,200. Actually, I was hoping that [Lucas] Zarzeczney from Avonworth was going to be at the meet. I'm looking forward to running against him."

The reason for that is Nadzam hasn't had a lot of competition in dual meets. He is finding it hard to churn out decent times when there is no one pushing him.

"Last year, I dropped eight seconds in the 1,600 between the WPIAL meet and the [PIAA] championships because of the competition," he said.

Nadzam was second to Ellwood City's Jake Walker in the 1,600 and 3,200 at the WPIAL Class AA championships in 2006. With Walker now at Notre Dame, that makes Nadzam among the favorites in those two events this year.

He said he probably will not try to run both distance races at the PIAA championships. He was seventh in the 3,200 last year and will concentrate on just one race at the state level.

"I found out last year that you have to put everything in to one or the other to be successful at the state meet," he said.

"So, I'll probably run just the 3,200 there. It's pretty hard to run them both."

As for college, Nadzam hasn't yet made a decision. He is considering Kentucky or North Carolina and will try to run track and cross country at whichever school he picks.