Got up at 8:00 and ate 10 frosted mini wheats, got dressed, and got a ride over to Lone Peak because it was raining. I got there and headed into the little shed thing to protect myself from the rain. The AF guys were in there sleeping. I warmed up with Mike and Tommy. Then headed over to the start. I changed into my spikes and did some strides on the pole vault runway so my spikes wouldn't get soaked. Dustin was there today, which was cool. It was lightly sprinkling when we lined up. i was the fifth seed in my heat and Mike was fourth. The gun went off and the front pack immediately separated from everyone else. It was a kid from Mt. View, a kid from AF, then Mike, a kid from Orem, and me. Mt. View and Af had about 10 meters on us but as we came around the back stretch Dustin said we were on pace to run a 66 so we needed to slow down. we did and reeled the two kids in at about 600. we came through 400 at 72. It was the five of us way ahead at that point and we came though 800 at 2:34. It stayed the same until at the mile we came through at 5:18 and the Orem kid dropped off. With 800 to go we were all trying to pass the Mountain View kid but he wouldn't let us pass. On the final lap I got ahead of AF, then on the home stretch kicked past Mt. View but AF got me back by half a step. Mike won two seconds ahead of me. 3rd place and a 13 second PR!!!! Afterward cooled down. |