Notes
16th, Midwest regional. Super cold out today. About 14 with the wind chill. We took it out kind of hard, Padgett was pushing hard. I hung at the back of the lead group and just focused on staying smooth and consistent even though the cold had froze my nose shut and my legs occasionally jellified. Around the two mile I let the pack kind of go but not mentally. Hit the 2 in 9:42 and the 3 in 14:39. I slowly gained on people falling off the pack while trying to break will cross. Plank was with me for pretty much the whole race and we worked off each other. Around 7k I caught Troy and we started to move up to catch a couple people but my side started cramping super bad but I tried to press through. With 500m to go Troy pulled away and in the home stretch plank passed me. I was at a full Kerley tilt and could hardly breath with the sharp pain shooting across the bottom of my lungs. I don't know if it was the cold or the change in breathing because my nose was sealed or just purely because I'm not used to breathing in this freezing air, either way it sucked total ass over the last 800m but ran well up until that point