Notes
The hard way. 16:12, 16:50. Ran in the evening, in a lovely mist. Big meet, but very few WPIers competing.
Thoughts on the race:
1) I was sitting where I wanted to through 5K, but I was already working too hard at that point. I made the right choice to keep on it early, but I started running out of gas.
2) I think I was slightly underfueled for this race. I didn't feel hungry during this race, but I was hungry during the warmup.
3) I beat the other guy from NEWMACs, so that was fun. I passed him about 8 laps in to try to bridge up. It didn't quite work out, but he slid off the back.
4) The second 5K was chasing the guy ahead of me very slowly. He was also dying it seemed like, so I wasn't making up any ground and was still slowing down.
5) I stopped paying attention to the clock after the first 5K, but I ran about 5:10, 10:23, 16:12 (5K). That is right around where I needed to be provided I didn't slow at all. Knowing me, that meant I was a few seconds behind.
6) The mist wasn't terrible, but I didn't really realize how wet I was until the end of the race. Second meet in a row with dissolved numbers.
Overall, I'm happy with the effort from this race. The race itself was very tough and realistically, I was lucky to make the meet. I can't complain too much about this race.