Well, found out that I didnt make the cut for Davis around lunch time today. But I was only sad for about a minute. and then I thought of how good I could do today, and how well I had prepared myself. So I stayed positive, because like i said before. Dont focus on what you cant do, rather focus on what you CAN do to make yourself the BEST you can be. So I went home and ate a good lunch(pizza rolls lololol) and watched tons of hype videos and hyped myself almost to the point of crying, and I knew that nothing was gonna stop me from doing my very best today because of how I was feeling. Went back to the school and everyone who didnt qualify for davis was pretty negative, so I did my best to motivate everyone but that wasnt working lol. Did a warmup mile on the turf, which ended up being a 6:09, but felt like an 8:00, so I knew even more, that it was gonna be a good race. Ran another warmup mile right before the race, and then got the boys together to do want some, get some, to get everyone excited and it was sooo awesome and definitley got everyone going. Watched the first heat of the mile, and my boy Nathan killed it, out kicking this riverton guy down the stretch to get a season pr of 5:05, so shoutout to him for doing great. Then my heat went to the line. They didnt put us in order, so they just lined everyone up and shot the gun. I wasnt nervous at all before this race and so the first lap. Landon went out hard, but I chose to be a little more conservative and stayed with the pack, but a bunch of people started passing me at the 300 mark so I had had enough of the pack and split off from them and got a 73 first lap. Surged at the begining of the second lap to get closer to landon and passed him going into the 800 mark, 74 second lap. Connor was calling the meet, and it was awesome to hear him call out me and landons name as we were racing, definitley contributed to the great race I had, so shout out to him. Surged again in the third lap, and me and landon really started distancing ourselves from the pack at this point and it was fun. 74 third lap. The fourth lap started and landon did his signature kick at the first 100 and got a 20 meter gap on me, but I just stayed focused and was able to catch him by the 200 mark with a kick of my own, at this point I wanted to win so bad, coming around the last turn neck and neck, he had just barely a little more leg speed than me and so he got me by a second. last lap was a 73. Got a 4:56 "officially", but I had multiple people getting my splits for me, and they all had me at a 4:54 with the splits I specified above. All in all a fantastic race, and I think I will for sure be able to qualify for BYU at tiger trials next week. Elevated my legs and cooled down 2 miles with nathan. Chilled with connor a little bit in the box and then went back down. Shout out to Tyler for breaking 2:20 in the 800 today, that was sick. By the time the two mile came around, my legs were no where near recovered, and I tried to stay with the leaders, but just didnt have it in me because of how fried my legs were from giving it all in the mile. My time in the 2 was 11:15 and if anything it was just good tempo training to help me get faster. Cooled down one last mile to get 8 for the day. Two more shoutouts, first one to spencer for running the mile and getting a 5:08, wish he woulda done distance smh bc he is pretty good at it. Last one goes to this dope quote I heard on Kung fu Panda three, it goes "If you only do what you can do, then you will never be more than you are now" Thats some str8 up wisdom from master shifu right there lol. Lizard Out.
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