Notes
Indoor Nationals DMR. 6th place All-American. got the baton in 11th place and ran about as perfect of a race as I could've given my positioning. initially got the baton right after la-crosse and right ahead of olaf. battled the lacrosse guy on the first turn since i had so much adrenaline, but then when i was on the backstretch thankfully it hit me that i needed to be patient. i immediately let off the gas and let him go. now, there was already a gap between 9th and 10th, which didnt help my case, but i knew my only shot was to be patient and then hammer when everyone else was dying. it paid off for the most part. i went through 800 about 10ish meters behind lacrosse guy with the gap to 9th about the same and then i started to ramp things up. i felt really fucking good too-really smooth and everyone in the stands was going nuts. it was an unbelievable feeling as i picked off guy after guy. ended up passing 2 more guys on the last lap and almost got up to the 5th place guy. really wished there was another lap because i felt that good but it is what it is haha. i did the best with the situation i was given (positive frustration on this end because i really wanted to place higher personally, but at the end of the day, we at least covered out points on paper and got a few points which ended up really helping us in the end against lacrosse). splits were roughly 61, 64, 63, 61. not sure on exact time or splits because for some reason this was the only race that the ncaa didnt calculate splits for but hopefully they come out with that soon because im interested to see how everyone did splitwise. overall, we kept the momentum rolling into the second day by salvaging an All-american status in this race and I'm happy with my individual performance and i guess my first track all-american award also