Notes
STEEPLECHASE
2013 Outdoor LL Championships. In the steeplechase. Wanted to place anywhere from 3rd to 6th and break 10. In hindsight, shot myself in the foot early on. For some reason I thought that I should go out and try and hit 78s from the gun, and I pretty much faithfully executed that plan for the first k despite it being windy. Pretty stupid, I came through in ~3:15 but then was hurting. Got passed by Aldous and an RIT guy within the next 600 or so. Pace slowed to 81-82 and then slower, 85s for one or two laps at least.
It was a good effort though. Tried to hang with Aldous when he went, then battled with SLU's Zachary Nelson for the last 800, had a really bad last water barrier and he pulled away but then I had a good final 100m kick to hold off a guy from Vassar by 0.01 secs. Pretty decent hurdle form imo for most of the race, struggled on my right leads still and my water barriers weren't very good, I kept taking two steps in the water.
Time wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be (1 second slower than @ MIT) but not at all where I wanted to be. Going to run it again next week, this time will be sure to go out conservatively (~10:10 pace) and then feel good and turn up the heat after the first third or so, rather than going out hard and dying.