Notes
2016 UW-Parkside Lucian Rosa Invitational
Very solid race today on my end. Goal was to get out behind the leaders early and relax through the half way point, and be aggressive the second half of the race. Got out perfectly with Frintner and Weem. We settled in nicely. William and I worked together for the second and third miles passing small groups of Parkside and UIC kids. Going back up the hill, Weem made a bit of a move a put a gap on me and moved up to the next group. At the top of the hill, I passed my group and tried to move back up to Weem, but he had already rolled passed his group. The last 1.5 miles or so, I was just trying to catch up while passing as many guys as I could. Finally came up on William with about 600 to go on a downhill. He seemed a bit surprised it was me honestly. After only like 200m I put a small gap on him and tried to get one more Parkside guy. Couldn't quite reel him in, but regardless, I'm happy with how tactically this race went. Came in 10th overall so solid and won another meet shirt lol.
Splits: 5:24, 10:31, 15:55, 21:15
Unofficially, men's team placed 3rd behind D1 UIC and D2 top 10 Parkside so solid day for us. We had a strong pack, and ran incredibly deep with 3 in the top 25, 7 in the top 40 (27:30) and 12 guys sub 28.