Notes
Washington University
We warmed up a little early so felt like we had a lot of time to kill. I wish I would have done a shake out today- probably would have helped but I didn't wake up early enough/ran out of time. There was a nice spread of seed times (18:00-18:50) in our heat and we were seeded 18:30 but for some reason the top 4 girls ran a 1:29/6 min-ish pace first lap. I didn't want to be stupid and go out in first but I couldn't help wonder what the heck was going on. Stayed relaxed, Ryan and Josh did a nice job cheering on the field. Just ticked off a bunch of 1:26-1:30 sec laps. And would ya look at that it got me to a 9 second PR, so fun to keep improving. This race felt really consistent and decently comfortable so I wish I would have tried to hang on to Emma (who killed her race!) when she made her move. With 300 to go I decided it was time for a kick but my stomach said no no you've been running 5k pace you don't get to run a 300 now so I got real nauseous and dry heaving in the last 300- annoying - probably could have squeezed another few seconds out of this if I had kicked. But overall, very happy with the day and this week.