AM-2 mike shakeout
PM-3 mile warm up with Eric Hamer, strides, race, 8.5 mile cool down with Clayton.
Updated race report: Went out for a warm up alone, but quickly ran into Eric Hamer. He is one of the nicest people in the sport, and it was great to warm up with him to calm nerves and to have someone to run with. We were both on the world cross country team together in 2015, so we've known each other for a while. Anyway, on the warm up, I tripped on a wire fell forward on the pavement. Scrapped up my hand, knee, and jacket. It hurt. It took my mind off the race, but I would've much rather had something else to distract me from being nervous. After did some strides, got to check-in tent, stretched, did some strides on the track during Clayton's final lap, and was super nervous to know if he qualified or not(the announcers were only talking about John Dressel's dive for 4th, but not who took fifth, and the scoreboard had it in tiny letters, so I couldn't tell). Eventually I found out he was 5th, so that was good to hear. He said he went into it a bit too confident, and almost paid the price. I knew my heat was stacked, so I was going to do my best to race smart.
Gun goes off and I get into good position in the middle pack. The race started quick with Wyatt Didrickson leading the way for the majoriy of it. Through this race, I always felt like I was in good position compared ot the 10k. Robert Brandt took the lead with 5 or 6 laps to go and started hitting 65s. I moved up to the outside of the second line (so fourth) and stayed there until about a little over a lap to go. Then I was in 5th or 6th, but I knew we would have 7 qualifiers in our heat. At 150m to go, I was in 6th, and I looked back and saw Robert Brandt was close, but I didn't see if anyone else was close. With 100m to go, Luis started coming back to me, so I made a small move to pass him and finish in fifth.
8.5 mile cool down with Clayton, some wiht Garnica, and Tyler and Robert from UCLA.
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