This was far from the rust-buster race I was hoping for. I doubted my fitness and raced timidly for 5 laps in 2nd place off the leader. The pace was nothing special, we came through 1600m in 4:46, and slowed to 6:00 through 2k, and then the pace picked up and I caved rather than try to test myself and go with it. The winner ran 8:50, I slowed to 76s over the last 1k. |