Kicked out my training partner for the win. I felt bad for him, but all is fair in love and war, and running is some kind of combination of the two. I had no idea we could go this fast. I thought 29:30 would be a good goal for me and 29:50 for Matt (my training patner, henceforth known as Dr. Bedoukian, thing is, he actually has a phd whereas I call myself doctor even though I'm just in my first year of med school now). Anyway, the doc doesn't have my speed or confidence in maintaining pace throughout a race, so he wanted to go out around 5:50 giving him some wiggle room to still break 30. I wanted to go out easy and pick it up, but you know how that always works out (especially when your slightly slower training partner goes out faster and you are the only two in the lead). So we ended up with 5:47 for the first mile feeling great. The second mile has a bit of a hill, and we went very near 6. I can't remember the splits after that, but I remember at mile 3 thinking all we needed to do was hold 6 to break 29:30 and yet we still maintained pace. In the last mile I thought I was gonna lose Dr. Bedoukian. I had drafted off of him a bit in mile 4 because of oncoming traffic taking up the road. Near the last 400 I pulled up almost next to him, but decided that wasn't a good idea and backed off a bit, but then felt really bad and wanted to let him go. When we saw the finish, he had a 3 meter lead on me but my mind went from impossibility to a sure thing. I turned on the anaerobic fires and, as Cassidy (from Once a Runner) would say, "whaaaail on" winning with a 3 second margin.
This makes 3 of 3 goals for this season (sub 30 5M, sub 18 5k, sub 5 mile). It was a very good day.
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