Notes
17:52.93 (my watch time) DVC Quad meet at St. James Farm. Legs felt tired during drills, the hot lap, and the strides. Wasn't expecting the race to go well, but I gave it a go. Got out pretty slow, and settled in with Jeevan. Went through the mile in 5:43 and I knew it was over. Felt like I was going fast on mile 2, but it ended up being really slow (6:07). Saw Trever, and Mason way ahead of me on the other side of the hill around mile 2, which was quite demoralizing. Dropped Jeevan for a short while, but he caught back up and dropped me. Tried to kick past him, but I was suffering, and mentally out of it by that point. Third mile (or last .95?) was 6:03. Really disappointed with today, just a terrible race. Even more pissed that I gave in mentally. The one positive is that I'm almost 100% sure that it was my high mileage weekend + a bunch of hard days in a row that caused my legs to feel so terrible. While I don't think the 60 mile week last week was a bad idea, I think piling so much of that mileage into 2 days was stupid, and I should know better by now. I know I have the fitness to run much faster, time to show it. Need to recover the next few days, then be smart about mileage and recovery for the rest of the year.