Notes
Woke up this morning feeling a little sick and generally not that great so I was slightly worried going into this race. Started out much more conservative this time, per Andy's instructions, first 400 was a 79 and I felt much more in control later in the race because of that. I sat behind an NCC guy and Guibord for about the first 800 and after that put myself on Guibord's hip so that the ONU guys behind us would have a harder time getting around. For the next mile we ended up going back and forth with the ONU guys holding off their attempts to pass. Guibord and I did the brunt of the work during the middle part of the race. We were running pretty even with every lap being a 39 or 40 except for one or two rough laps towards the end that cost me sub 10. With 400 to go Guibord had put some ground on me and the 3 ONU guys all passed me pretty much at the same time. Sat behind them until 200 to go and then managed to get around all of them in the last lap. Got the 3rd guy by like 1/10th of a second at the line. Not the time I was shooting for but Guibord and I competed well within our heat and beat out all the guys that were feeding off of us for the whole race, and that is a pretty big positive. If I had closed harder in the last 600m I think things would've gone a little better but I'm pretty satisfied with the race. I'm hoping that I will be able to progress at the same rate Guibord has been so we can keep working together like this.