Good race today! Drove down later and almost got scratched. Barely checked in on time. 2 mile warmup and a few strides. I was in the 2nd heat. I had to start in lane 8 so that stunk. Everyone went out pretty slow though, so I got in a good position on the curve. I just chilled the first lap, came through in an 81. Then I just gradually moved up, till I was in 3rd at the mile, in 5:38. Steven was in 1st by like 80 meters and a Salem Hills kid about 40m up. The wind kept changing directions, so a few laps I was going into the wind on both straits. On lap 6 I seriously thought I was going to puke. I caught the salem hills guy with 900 left. After than I let him get about 15m on me till about 150 left to go. I told myself its now or never so I opened up my stride and once it was like 120 left I just took off after him. I ended up getting him by .2 seconds. 2 mile cooldown with zack seth and steven. Overall I'm happy with the race. It's kinda hard not to with a 14 second PR. Really fun race today. I still know I race run lot's faster. My biggest confidence booster is that I negative split it, by 8 seconds. And shoutout to Zack for qualifying for state! |