Notes
Awesome race for me, ok for the team. I got a 12 second PR and the team finished 5th, with 4 qualifying for state. The first two miles of the course are on a low lying field by the river, and that went by really quickly. I stayed with Cullen for 1.5ish and passed him at the 2. The last 0.6 miles were awesome for me. I passed 10 or so people in that space. I was going really fast with 200 and even more with 100, and I felt awesome. My knees hurt a little bit but it was no problem. The course was dry enough for 3/8 in. spikes. They announced the results 5 minutes after the race, and as they called us as fifth, the team got pretty depressed. Nick Baker qualified for state, which was pretty cool. What I thought were my splits had really skewed paces, so I didn't enter them. I just know I gunned it on the last half mile. Coach was really pleased and most of the varsity guys acknowleged my race too :-).
Overall this season, I set 4 PRs, and this race was 2:09 faster than my best race last season, which was at Mason. My goal for next year is to break 17:00, which may even be easy with the extreme training boost that I'll get in the summer, like 12 mile runs and easy runs of 7+ miles. I think a lot of what was stopping me last season was mental, and I got over that this year. I didn't even do track last season, so this spring I will get even more training!!!