Notes
16th, race was a lot tougher than last year. Pretty windy 10-15mph and about 50 degrees. It wasn't the best conditions but we raced well as a team. We had a nice group of 4 through the first mile before Sebhat and I started to fall back. We still went 4:58 first mile and 9:54 through two. A big pack of Iowa caught us around then and we tried to stick on the back. I was struggling just to keep up and pressed to keep the gap small. The wind pounded me hard any time I tried to make a move to Sebhat. I could hear the crowd cheer for Zach just a few seconds behind me so I knew we were running a good team race and it would be better if I could finish with Sebhat. Went through 15:30 at 5k and had closed the gap. As we ran along the back edge Sebhat kept ushering me up to him but he finally pulled away a little after 800 to go. I tried to close on the group of 3 Iowa runners that were strung out ahead of me but the pain of the race got to me when I got to the point that I was going to kick I almost lost balance and just fell apart over the last 100m. Could have run better today, expected better of myself but my legs were flat and the conditions were less than optimal. Having the team chemistry on the cool down really helped to pull me out of the shit hole I was in after finishing