After a long 5 hour drive up to Boise, we checked into our hotel, and then went to the meet. We had a little bit of time until the two mile started, so we bumbed around a little, and then Kyler, Ethan, Stockton, and I warmed up for about a mile and a half. Then I watched Claire finish (12:17 in her first two mile!), and then got ready with Kyler. My hamstring hurt a ton, but I cared more about the mile anyway, so today I just was planning on sitting on Elijah and kicking. Well the opposite happened. The gun went off, and after about 100 meters, I was in the lead. I felt pretty good. First 400m wasn't too fast, but it felt comforable. I can't remember splits, but Tyson told me later. Pretty early on, it was just me in front, Elijah right behind and Andrew Rafla (PR before this was 9:31). Somewhere in the race, I was lapping someone, and then cut out in front of me, and then I tried going around them, but they sprinted so I had to stick in lane 2. I put on some surges in the race, but they responded well to them. With 800m to go, my hammy tightened up a little. My next 400m was the slowest we ran, 1:10. I then tried to make a move to lose Elijah, but didn't have the rigth mentallity. I just kept pushing it, but with 150m left, Elijah passed me and I lost it mentally. I didn't think I killed myself a ton, but ended up running a 1:04 the last 400m, which means Elijah's was 1:03. Full 2 miles, not 3200m, so converted it was like a 9:05 or 06, close to my PR. Also, a very strange thing. I negative split the race. And I led most of it. This usually never happens for me. 4:35 first mile, 4:34 second.
I feel great about this race. Even though I wanted the win, I was happy I was able to run fast and being beat by Elijah is better than other people. He's a great runner, and he's pretty nice to everyone too. I cooled down with Kyler, Ethan and Stockton, but Kyler was feeling really sick, so he had to leave early. We got tons of stuff in our shoes, so that kinda sucked.
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