Beast Monsters... That's all I have to say about this one.  It's been a long time since I ran at a track meet.  This was indoor track so the 3000 ended up being 15 laps.  It was also the last even so we had a lot of time to just sit around.  I got to try out my new spikes today as well so that was exciting!  They felt like socks... Very nice.  The race started out well and I stayed relaxed toward the back.  I was able to pass one guy to stay up with the pack as much as possible.  The race actually went by really fast.  I had tunnel vision so I could only really hear one teammate on the side and my coach.  Everything else was blocked out.  I will say that I found this race to be more painful than my 8k cross country races.  It probably wasn't but it seemed like it.  I hit the mile at 4:53.  This was quite a moment for me because it was the first time I have ever broken 5 minutes in the mile.  It has been a goal of mine for almost 6 years but I just never really got the chance to do it.  The last time I ran the mile was in H.S. and I got a 5:06.  I was beginning to think it would be something I wouldn't be able to log away in my life history.  Unfortunately no fireworks went off... I wasn't even really able to enjoy it because I knew I had another 1400 meters to run.  I felt good though.  My mile and half was a 7:33 and I ended up keeping an AP of 5:04 for the whole race.  I slowed up a bit after the mile unfortunately.  Felt good to be done!  Good race! | 