Notes
Second race only 3.5 seconds off my PR which is really a good double. I wasn't as mentally pumped for this as I was for the mile so it suffered a little there. I went out with the leaders and got in 5th and it spread out and I only got to about 1000 meters before the hurt really came which is a little early so I just kept trucking and tried to get all the points for the team I could 1k in 3:02, 2k in 6:11 (I think). It was really depressing when they started yelling 38s cause thats what I want my 5k to be next week but having a race before made it tougher. Although, if I want to do the 10k/5k double at NEWMACs I have to be able to handle that kid of abuse and torture. So I think it was a very good learning experience in racing while tired. Also, I think I have gotten better at early-mid race surges cause I had a good two person one about 600 meters in. What I mean is: when the front 2-3 guys run away from everyone else and I'm stuck behind a guy who went out too fast I have the speed and endurance to get up beside him and blow past 1-2 guys in 50 meters and get back in lane one for the curve and not run out of gas. Of course don't expect me to surge very often because after I do it once in a race it takes a few minutes before I can handle that hard anaerobic pace again. So this was a good race. Not a PR like I wanted but it was ok..