Notes
3 mile race. Final official cross country race as a redhawk, which is crazy, but on to the race. Worried I was going to cramp up during the race, but I didn't. Felt very rushed on my warm up because they moved the start up 5 minutes, and only announced it 5 minutes before the race was to begin. Would have benefited from some more strides, and a longer hot lap, but I tried to not let it get to me, and just run my race. Start was very crowded, but managed to get out quick and run with David. Moved up to Trever, Zheng, and Laboe at the half mile, and came through the mile in 5:29. Had a fairly solid second mile, dropped Trever, but lost Zheng and Laboe. Hit the 2 mile in 11:12 (5:43 split). Tried to push hard the last lap, and was with some non-central kids. Hit the track, and didn't really pick up the pace that much. Got passed by Trever, and Jeevan in the last ~20 meters. Last mile was 5:37. Extremely happy with my race except for the last 200m. Got way too complacent, and didn't push as hard as I should have. Pretty hyped to have broken 17. Been really frustrated with my racing this year so it was nice to validate the work I've been putting in. The person I was at last year's DVC would never have though sub-17 was possible. Great to finally achieve the goal I set for myself all the way back in May. In other news I think the mile markers may have been off a little, and the course was ~30m short, but I don't really care about the mile splits, and 30m is only like 5-6 seconds extra at 5:40 pace so I still would have broken 17 anyway.