Notes
I was looking forward to this race for a number of reasons: 1500 is fun to do and I got to run with John... so flashback to last year. I was kinda tweaking going into the race because all the heats before me were going out really hard (65-ish). Really deep meet and fun to watch. Aaron told me to just put myself in the top 4 early and see what to do. I went out hard, but after 100 I settled in and slowed down. It was really strange, no one wanted to take the pace (see facebook to see my confusion) so I did and was content going around the track in 70's. After 400 a couple people passed but I went through in 70, stayed in the middle the next two laps. Kinda latched on to John for a lap then with about 500 to go I passed him because he was dawdling, trying to get him to come with me. Came through 1100 in 3:10-3:11, tried picking it up. Didn't really know where/when to start kicking from. It was kind of gradual but I thought I was moving by the end, moved up a little bit, think I got 5th in the heat. PR by 10 seconds. I'm definitely happy with this race because I finally hit one of my goals for the season (even if it wasn't my ultimate goal). I think if I had more experience racing the 1500 I would have won the heat... easy. It was there for the taking and I could have moved early when I was in the lead. But, learning experience and I'm happy.