Notes
Wellllllllllllllllll... a PR is a PR, right? I don't know, fairly disappointing end (almost certainly) to my season. Was looking at 4:15 again but only chipped off a little time from my first race. Funny thing is, splits ended up being almost exactly the same as that race, but in a different order. Good start off the line, tucked in to 4th or so. Came through 300 in 50 and 400 in 66mid, good pace. Thing is, between the wind and the quicker pace, I was breathing a little heavier than last week and thought I might be accidentally pushing too hard too soon from excitement. Well evidently I backed off a WHOLE LOT, because the next lap was a 72, oops. Got back into the right groove in the third lap, but clearly too little too late. Kicked well again for the most part, passed a lot of guys back in the last 200 apparently, got a little held up at 150 not wanting to waste energy passing double wide runners on the turn but eventually had to go for it. Ended up with 50 (66) - 72 - 69 - 68. Again, though, it was a pretty controlled race... and any race where I don't get tooled on in the last 200 is a little victory for me. Shame that slow lap snuck in there, but at best, it's a 2 or 3 second improvement off my time run correctly, so still not good enough. At least it was under that 4:20 (and 4:40 equiv).
Threw up after, wooo!