Notes
10:16.21 3200m at the Rock Island Boys Track and Field Invitational. Plan was to get out and tuck in behind the United Township guy seeded at 10:03, but I received a lot more fight than I though I would. First 200 was very physical with 2 kids fighting for the lead, but not going very fast. I surged a little 300 in taking the lead for a little and was followed by the UT kid who took the lead shortly thereafter. From there very little changed place-wise. Hit the 400 in 75 and the 800 in 2:31. Continued to stay behind the UT kid and hit the mile in 5:06. Next mile was rough, just fought to stay with UT and not fall apart like at JV DVC. Started to get dropped by UT on lap 7(could have been 6, I don't remember for sure), but still stayed fairly strong. Last lap wasn't great, but had a solid last 200m to hold off some kid for second place. Last mile in 5:10. Fairly solid race today, although I didn't run as fast as I wanted to. First mile was executed very well, second was ok, but I faded a little and wasn't as mentally strong as I should have been on laps 6/7. Probably should have tried to stay with UT although I might have blown up if I tried that. Wanted to run close to 10 flat, but that was never going to happen on the day. I still feel like I have a lot of time left to shave off this year. I felt pretty crappy the whole week, even on the warm up I felt kinda shitty, and I still PRed by 10 seconds. Others might not see it, but sub10 is still very much in the cards this year. Hopefully this effort was enough to get me into Prospect.