Notes
Emma and I knew going into this race that we had the fastest seed times by about 30 seconds, so we planned to run together from the gun and race alone. We had planned for 10:45pace, about 43's, ish, and Emma did a fantastic job leading the first 4 laps. She was just like a metronome out there, and we ran solid 43s through 800m. On the back stretch of lap 5 we did a little bicycle pass and I took the lead. We ran together for a few more laps, and then at some point a gap started to open up. Steve stopped reading splits, which was fine, so I just tried to keep cutting down little by little. I felt strong, but this effort was definitely a more honest effort than the mile. The last 3 laps were definitely hard.
10:38, and I'm happy with that. I ran 10:34 at Carleton last year, so I was only 4 seconds off my 3k PR.