Notes
5k at Simpson's Kip Janvrin meet. I had the fastest seed time going in and jumped right on the leaders when the gun went off. Hit the 200 in 33-34 and realized this was faster than I wanted to mess around with. Let two guys go over the next 200 and still hit the 400 in 71. Ran in no man's land for a lap or two before the main group caught up. Then I started to feel pretty bad a slid through the pack pretty quickly. My back was really sore and my breathing was rough, and with about 6 laps to go I was seriously considering dropping out. I think I thought about dropping out for so long though that all of the sudden I was under a mile to go and got a little more confidence. I started to pass people as they fell of the pace and then picked it up myself toward the end. I closed pretty well over the last couple of laps and finished with one of my hardest kicks in awhile (29-30). Caught up to the 2nd place guy a lot over the last lap but didn't quite get him at the line. I lost by .04 seconds. We gained a lot on the 1st place guy over the last few laps too. Ended up running faster than I thought I was going too based on how I felt for most of the race. I'm not really excited about the time but I'm pretty happy about gutting it out and only being 9 seconds off my pr in a pretty terrible feeling race.