Today I ran in two races, the mile and the 4x800. The 800 was awesome and the mile not so much. The mile was first and I was in the second heat. The gun went off and it was just terrible from the beginning. Everybody in our heat was within like 5 seconds of each other in seed times, and it was super crowded. We came across the first two laps in a giant pack five people across, and I was unfortunate enough to run in lane 3 and 4 for most of it. I wasn't feeling all that good and I just grinded out the next two laps. I ended up at 4:43 which was .1 seconds faster than two weeks ago, but not as fast as I was hoping for.
After that I just chilled with the guys for the couple of hours until the 4x800. When it was finally time we warmed up on the bikes for a little then headed over to the start. They sent us out to our different spots on the track and had us wait for a couple minutes before starting. Jamison was our first leg and he did good. It was his first race ever on a track so we weren't expecting anything much and he ran like a 2:18 and was towards the back of the pack. We didn't have the greatest of handoffs but it worked out and I got the baton about twenty meters behind a group of four teams. On the second lap I caught the group and passed them and gained some good ground on them before the handoff. I ended up running 2:08 or 2:09 which is a huge PR for me. I passed off to Clayson and he went crazy on his leg. I am pretty sure he ran sub two and he passed the entire field except for Davis who was out in front the whole time. He passed off to Mike who had a slight lead on AF and Rock Springs, but on the backstretch they caught him and he settled in between the Rock Springs guy who was in third and Tyler Bell from AF who was right behind. They stayed in that exact order all the way to the finish and we got third! Too bad only top relay gets medals.
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