Notes
Great race, 3 second PR, 4:09.66 (converts to about a 4:25-4:26)
After racing the 5k last night, wasn't very optimistic. Didn't feel good at all on the warm up
Decided to just stay at the back of the pack and try to negative split. Went out pretty slow, stuck with Alex Swetman, had to weave a lot, scared I was gonna be boxed in, but was able to maneuver. At the 800 I felt good and started moving fast. I don't know what my first two laps were, third lap was 66.1 though. Kept pushing, knew I was cruising and flying past people, moved up into good place. Last lap started to move up towards Dereck, passed him with 200 to go and was flying, moved into third place, but with 100 left to go my legs locked up and I couldn't kick as fast as I wanted. Crossed the line and had no idea what I went, or if it was even close to a PR. I crushed my PR by 3 seconds after running the 5k last night. Pretty excited, i'm in better 1500 shape then I thought, and I ran the race beautifully, a great negative split for sure. That's how to race it.