Will write more later. Great race for me, and it was another PR, so I'm way happy about it.
Got up early with Alex and Tyson for breakfast, then we headed to the meet. We did a quick shakeout, then after an hour or something, we did a warm up. After that, we stretched, and Tyson and I thought they were behind schedule, so we did another quick warm up around the field. Well, they were all in the bull pen when we finished, so we hurried over and got in there about as close as we could. I felt pretry fresh. If I wasn't ready to race mentally, I was too prepared physically to not race well I thought. Alex said he wanted to go out in a 2:04ish, so I was going to stay on his tail until the 800m mark, then push the 3rd and 4th lap. The guy said "runner's take your marks" and waited for 10-15 seconds, but it felt like an eternity! He was twitching his finger, so it looked like he was going to fire. I got my foot up, and a split second before it hit the ground the gun went off. So I was as close as you can get to a false start. Alex got out too, and so I stuck right on his tail, but 100m into it, I knew he wasn't going out in 2:04, so I passed him and ran the rest of the race almost solo. I came across 400m at about 1:00, and just said I needed to push it for my next two laps, and the fourth will take care of itself. I felt pretty good for the 2nd and 3rd lap, and saw I was at about 3:07 with 400 to go. I knew if I finished in a sub-60 I had the all-classification record. I pushed it, but tightened up with 250m to go. I tried sprinting, but didn't have it, I'd spent a little too much early on. I'm happy with it though, even though I didn't get my goal of a sub-4:10, I knew I pushed it as much as I could, and that means a lot more to me. Afterward I cooled down. Alex and Tyson both ran PRs of 4:20 and 4:24, so it was a good day for us.
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