Notes
I felt hot and tired from the heat and humidity before the race even started. Plus all the pressure I felt was on me to win the race. BS and I took off side by side. About 1/4 mile into the race, I really thought, today wasn't going to be my day. I was hurting early in the race. We went through the half mile at 2:30. I wanted to go out in 5:00 if it was going to be cooler but the heat made me rethink to 5:10's I then pulled away from BS by a little bit on the downhill stretch to the mile. I went through at 5:08 and BS at 5:10. The we took the long ass way around the ball diamonds. I tried to keep pace but after I felt BS falling behind and 3rd was no where it was tough to force through and push the pace more. I hit the halfway at 7:50. I knew if I could get to 2 miles (long) in 10:20/10:30 I could salvage a fast race. I hit 2 at 10:40 and BS at 11:02. I tried to push the last mile to get under 16 minutes and because of the 2nd mile being long and the 3rd short I closed in 5:00. It felt weird to push in the last half when everyone was watching and I was clearly in the lead. I felt like I had another gear the whole 2nd and 3rd mile just in case but never went to the well and used it. On a cooler day I think I could have been closer to 15:20 or if someone had been pushing me more. BS ran a hell of a race on his training ( I knew he would, he is a racer).