Notes
I'm sorry to report that I didn't run very well today. I think it was just a matter of going out too fast, but unfortunately in this case "too fast" was something that before the race I would not have thought was unreasonable. I went out in the back of my heat and very comfortably went through 800 in 2:41. That was about 2-3 seconds faster than I had planned but apparently quite a bit faster than I could handle. I've been running 2:39-2:45 in 800s in practice so I thought low 2:40s was a reasonable place to start. At around 1000 meters I passed the last of the people that I was running with and was in no-man's land for a while. Then around 2000 two guys went by me and I couldn't respond. I'm told I ran a couple of 43 second laps and then got back to 41s at the end.
I ended up running 10:26, which is quite a bit faster than I ran last year but I really think that I am capable of 10:15 right now. I have no one to blame but my own bad judgement. It was also fairly warm in the building, but it was warm for everybody. In retrospect I should have gone out more like 2:46-2:47. The two guys who passed me at 2000 meters did that and ran right around the time I wanted. But my PR is 10:02 and I think I am in the best aerobic shape of my life right now. Note to self, best aerobic shape and best 3k shape are not necessarily the same thing!