Notes
Well, we went out and I was in the middle but it felt fast so at 250 I got to the inside of lane one and started moving slower and hit 400 in 73. I was pretty close to the back. Then I started to get closer to pace with a 77 but they were still moving away and then I put on two 78s for a 5:06 mile. I knew that most of the field went out too fast so I just decided I was going to reel them in. And I did for the most part. I passed two people that dropped out, hit 5k in about 16:30, 4mi in 21:21, 8k in 26:47? I passed Forest after the 5k and set my sights on Matt from CG but he was 100 meters up and over the last two miles I only made up about 20 meters on him with 3 laps to go I hit a wall but closed in a 76. Lessons learned: be ready for a fast early pace and then go from there. I run better with people so I should push harder even if it hurts so early. I think that mentally the fast early pace detered me and got in my head a little. I didn't think about it during the race but whatever. I was so alone the whole time I was passing people but I was flying by them so no time to work together. It was also quite humid and a little hot and that played a part. Look at the times most are pretty unremarkableonly 8 people beat their seed times many were a minute or so slow. It was probably cooler weather for the second heat and they had a rabbit and all ran together to get those sweet times. My parents and Grandma watched and so it was nice that I was passing people. Verdict: very dissapointed a second 17:10 5k is unacceptable but I'm satisfied because I beat faster people and after the first mile didn't let anyone pass me.