Notes
First race of my limited Indoor season but was glad to get a good reference point of where I'm currently at. Race was very weird, tons of pushing and shoving as people tried finding position and I did my best to just stay out of that crazy cluster. The first group made a big move though and I tried to get up to them but by the time I did they made another move and I got stuck in no-man's land. While the race did go out slow, I was surprised at the number of people ahead of me. I went through in probably around 4:55 with the leaders at 4:51 and I was almost in 20th place which was ridiculous. Just did my best to run my race and was pleased to see people began paying for their greed and started coming back to me. I caught about 2 people every 3 laps after the mile and despite having some Eastern Michigan guys catch me I never let them break me. Felt smooth and in control the entire time and waited till the last lap to actually kick. Put 5 seconds on the Eastern guys on the last 300 so it was nice to see I could still turn over and run a smart race. Not an amazing time by any means, but it's at least nice to see that I ran a conservative and smooth race and still managed 15:08. Now I've got almost 2 months to really get myself in shape before I jump into another 5k. On the right path, just gotta stay healthy and keep up the grind!