I started out really well. Tyson and I were running about a 5:17 pace for the first 2 or 3 miles, then I started to fall off Tyson and its hard to keep pace without someone to help...so I dropped to about a 5:50 pace and devin and michael caught me and I hung with them for about a mile then fell off the pace of them because my hamstrings were tired. I tried to regroup and was successful in picking up the pace for about 1/2 mile then byron and curls caught me and I couldn't keep pace with them for too long and I dropped to about a 6:30 pace. By the time I regrouped it was too far for me to catch them at what pace I could go. Then these two other runners caught me and I was staying with them (within like 10 feet) for about 2-3 miles and noticed that when I positively coached myself by saying things like "you can do this, they are not out of reach." and "they aren't going too fast for you to catch them." really helped but I began getting negative again so I only could close it to about 5-10 feet. Then another guy in red passed me by the hill by hunters house and I stayed with him for a while. We passed michael cause he was having some sort of side ache and we hit staheli hill and it hurt a lot and the guy in red (as I called him in my head) pulled away quite a bit. I was going about 5:50 down the hill then when we hit the more level, slightly up hill ground I reduced to 7 min pace because I had little left in my legs. I continued this until the last mile where michael and some other guy passed me but I had nothing left to go with them. Good race for not specifically training for this race. I learned some important things from this and can't wait to apply it to track!
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