Notes
Tough race. Going into the race I was obviously really excited to race. After these tough, not so good races I think it's good practice to find good things about the race and places where you can improve.
Currently, I'm trying to figure out what made ECAC's such a great race and this one so much worse. Looking at everyone's times and how they ran it was a tough race all around. Possibly it's only having 1 week to recover from the last 10k. I didn't feel terribly beaten down going into the race, mainly I just noticed my calves were a little tight after finishing up the 90 sec tempo. Possibly mentally I wasn't as tough as I was during ECAC's, where I was feeling almost invincible. Mentally tough is the wrong word, because I felt that my training had been so great up until that ECAC's race that it didn't matter too much what I was thinking since my training made it easy to run with all those girls.
So good things: Time was slowever, however I did place better than my seed time, meaning I was beating girls who were much faster than me. (Came 14 instead of 19). Can't help being a little bummed that 8th place was 16:20, however it's better to look as being a possibly goal if I get better/ smarter at racing.
Improvements: I'm really dissapointed how uneven all my lap splits were for the whole race. I want to get to a point were I can run 86's (or insert another time) consistently and worry less about what the people around me are running. I was getting very annoyed running in the pack since people would always be kicking your shoes or tripping in front of you. There's a pretty funny quote from Once a Runner that I was thinking about how if you are in a race and you think it's packed, just remember ancovies swin in packs with a much greater density.
No cool down! And onto 2 weeks off, Orgo night class and then hitting summer training hard!!
... I'll try to think of some more