Today was preregion. I think we did about a mile and a half cooldown and warmup. We took the first mile at race pace, I ran up with the bingham kids, tayte, and christian for the first mile and Brayden also. I think Coach said I did the first mile in 5:15. I wanted the opportunity to run with those guys and see how it felt to run their pace, it definitely isnt too fast. It felt harder than I usually take the first mile but I think it was important experiance so I could find out how fast I should be running if I want to break up Binghams top 5. After the first mile I slowed it down to about 8 minute mile pace, Alec caught up and then stayed with me. For the 3rd mile We did about half of it fast and half of it slow (3 fast parts, 3 slow), and I cruised in the last 100 after i had finished my last hard minute or so. I slowed down a lot from the fast part but I went fast enougth that I didnt lose any places. My time was 19:18 or so or 19:11. I'm not sure, but it was a nice run. I realized how much people slow down after the first mile, It makes me really consider slowing my first mile of races down 5 or 10 seconds to see what happens.
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