Notes
3k at GVSU today. Not a good race, but a good race to learn what shape I am in. This was a race were I grabbed control of it too early and payed the price later. My goal was to see how long I could run 54 300s (GVSU is 300 meter) and that would put me at 9:05. I took the lead at the end of the first lap and took the first quarter to a 71. Then took us through the half in 2:23 which was a little faster then I wanted or expected. I let Drew take the lead at 1000 and stuck with him until about 1500 when I came through in 4:31 (so I was running right around 54 for the first half of the race). That took me through the 1600 in 4:49-4:50, but I just starting dieing hard here. Lost my form. Drew went on to run 9:07 which was awesome. I feel had I gone out in around 4:54-4:55 I would have run a lot better. I felt I could have run around 9:12-9:14 tonight which would have been solid, but alas I just went out too hard. Now I know what kinda of shape I am in. I did realize afterward though that this is off of one true workout and my first 3200 last year did not go so well because I went out too hard, but came back the next week to run a solid 3200 and that was off of more workouts. I hoping to do the 5k at Olivet Nazarene next Saturday and now that I know what shape I am in from this race, I will better prepared to handle that race.