C Mantz Running

AM-5.25 with Michael, Josh, and Talem.

PM-8x400. Didn’t feel good during these. Felt really sluggish and had no pop in my legs. 61, 61, 61, 60, 60, 60, 60, 57. 90 seconds rest and then 3 min after 6th rep. 

AM-5.1 miles

PM-12 miles and strides

AM-4.2 icy miles with Josh, Michael, and Talem.

PM-9 miles. 2x400, 2x200 at 62, 60, 28, 26.

AM-5 frozen miles in Iowa.

PM-3 miles, strides, and 2x200m at goal pace.

AM-10 minute shakeout with Clayson and Jake.

PM-5k race in Iowa. I ran a PR by 13 seconds. 9 mile cool down, two mile warm up. Shoutout to Trevor Dunbar for pacing perfectly for 4K, and to Clayton Young for having a kid a few weeks ago, buying a car this weekend, and then running 13:34.

Race report long writeup: Got there a couple hours before the race started.  I was pretty nervous, but felt really good doing strides yesterday, so I was confident.  After the warm up when I was putting on my spikes, Coach showed me the results from the race at UW.  It put a little more pressure on my to run my goal time of 13:39, but I was confident in it.  I started next to Clayson and there was a lot of room where we started.  I quickly was in the back and while I felt the pace was slow, it wasn't.  I came around 800m at 2:10 and realized I was in good position, and right where I wanted to be.  At 1200m I was at 3:17 and debated on moving up, but we got back on pace pretty quick, and I was fine.  I think I was at 4:22 at the 1600m mark, and just kept calm. The race didn't feel too bad, but it was definately a good effort.  I hit 8:49-50 at 3200m and realized I may need to start picking it up.  With 1000m to go, I looked at the time and saw 11:00 or something and told myself I had to urn 2:39 to get sub-13:40.  I went around the pack of 8 or 9 guys quickly and was in third.  I was apprehensive to do this becasuse I knew it was going to hurt and increase the risk of me burning out, but I was pleasently surprised when it didn't.  I saw Clayton and Edwin Kurgat were gapping us and I tried to catch them.  I didn't look around me to see the pack on my heels, but focused on Clayton.  He was leading and his gap was increasing.  I just kept telling myself "Bama or bust," which is a reference to either go to indoor nationals, or blow up in this race trying.  As we continually got closer to the finish, I saw my goal of sub 13:40 getting closer and closer within reach.  With 300m to go, I was pretty sure I had it, and this sense of confidence may ahve slowed me down, as I had one of the slowest last laps in the race, but I got the goal at hte finish. I was passed by 2 people in the last 100m, but it was fine.  We had 4 guys from BYU run 13:42 or faster, with Clayton getting the win at 13:34.  

Long run. Started at 0 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill making it to negative 17, but by the end it was 9 degrees and the wind chill said -9. It wasn’t as bad because we did 90% of the run not into the wind.