Well I'm not happy with my performance. My goal was to run a sub 17 minute 5k. I was where I needed to be and running as fast as I needed to be until I got kicked in the back of one of my legs from behind 2.25 miles in or so, I stumbled and barely caught myself from faceplanting and and then I just slowed down and started getting passed. I think its safe to say i lost 40-50 positions from the time I got kicked until the end, I had been passing people the entire race up until that point and I was feeling great. I was really concentrating on running through the pain today but the last .75 or so was just really bad and I just gave in to the pain. I had 2 goals coming into this race 1. Give the race everything I had and no matter the time be able to say I had done my absolute best and ran my absolute hardest through the pain and 2. I wanted to run the race in less than 17 minutes. I achieved neither goal, I am happy for my team that we did better overall than last year and Kramer won which is great. I need to get faster. I really thought breaking 17 minutes today was possible, all the way up until I got kicked. It wasn't even like there wasn't anywhere to pass me anyway... it was 2.25 miles in so there were plenty of openings. But I shouldn't blame that for my horrible last portion of the race. I feel that I ran the first 2.25 miles very well, I ran through the pain well for that distance. I also didn't kick at all and continued getting passed by a lot of people up until the end of the race. At herriman I'm not even going to set a goal time, and I'm not even going to target rivals from other schools. I'm just going to run and try to push myself to my limit, I don't want to be able to walk through the line at the finish. I want to give it my all, I just haven't been running through the pain like I should be. I guess I will just put in another solid week this coming week and do my best at Herriman.
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