Notes
I ran the 10K at the NESCAC track meet this morning and it went fairly well. It was a very windy day so the race went out somewhat slowly as nobody really wanted to lead, but people would put in surges on the straight with the tailwind every now and then and we came through the first 5K in about 16:10-16:15. After that the lead pack dropped the hammer pretty suddenly and took off and though I did my best to stay with them I got dropped pretty hard. I ended up pretty far behind at about the 4 mile mark, by myself and fighting the wind alone on every back straight and feeling exhausted, but I fought through and started to feel a little better as I worked my way back up to other people. actually then got dropped a second time but not nearly as badly and I then worked my way back up again and passed a kid on the final turn only to be out kicked with about 20 meters to go. I ended up finishing last before a serious drop-off in times but ended up with a big PR (though of course it was only over my tempo from three weeks ago so in a way it was my first real time for the event) and felt dramatically better than I did last weekend. I actually rather enjoyed the event once I started feeling better, and I'm not dreading next week's race as much as I did this week's. I also really lucked out with the cold weather which I think helped me a lot.