Mile warm-up, then 2 mile run. Afterwards coaches informed us we'd race a mile today, courtesy of Christian Graham. I had to run in the 2nd lane for basically a 200m stretch so I'd call it a mile. Coaches told us to hit a 75 first 400m. Race goes off a little quick. Hit the first 200m in 35. I slowed down a tiny bit. By the 400m I was in 5th behind Mason, Aaron, Austin, Kedric, and Christian right on me. But, I was the first one to hit 75 seconds, I heard Christian say "We're right on pace Nathan!", so I naturally sped up a bit. By the 600m Mason had about 5 seconds on me, and the rest of the varsity guys on my tail. Hit the 800m at 2:28. Good. By the time I hit 1000m I was within striking distance of Mason, and no one was with us. Unfortunatly Mason had an insane kick and ran a 63 last lap. I hit the 1200m at somewhere between 4:39 and 4:41, and my kick just wasn't there. I coasted. Settled for silver again, I should have kept with him. With 200m left I heard the breathing and heavy footing of Aaron behind me, so I sped up to a good pace and managed to beat him by a second, running a 4:53. Only it wasn't Aaron. It was Christian. He came in at 4:54. Ran my second fastest mile/1600 time ever, and got 2nd, which was pretty cool. Did a three mile cooldown on the track after with Jacia where we just talked trash on everyone on the team, except Cherokee Kenny, and it was super chill and fun. Except I ran in my spikes during the cooldown, sockless, and my feet were hurting #norisknoreward I shaved off a full 20 seconds from this same race from last year, and I got 7th last time, and only one of those people ahead of me weren't present today.
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