The Renegade

Well, today was quite eventful. Kind of slept in for first hour but I needed the sleep. Then I left to get lunch before 4th hour ended and we headed out, but Coach took like half an hour to come with the van. So we finally got on and after about an hour and some backtracing after missing some exits, Coach Strand got distracted and we flew off the road into the median, it was super scary but noone got hurt, although we had to wait about an hour to wait for a tow truck. We got back on the road and got to Boise smoothly, although our sprinters missed the 60m. So it was maybe an hour before I had to warm up, and when I did it was super super foggy outside, bu I didn't want to run inside. Went for a mile. Came back and hurried and changed into my race kit, and I got to the checkin place and my heat (heat 1) was already warming up on the infield! But no worries, I got out there and was able to have enough time for drills and strides. I felt really good doing them. 

I was seeded 13th, which put me on the very outside of the first of two water falls. I was in the faster half of my heat (fastest on the outside). The gun went off and I got out really well, front of my group, then the other guys cut in and I was second. After about 2 or 3 laps I moved into the lead for maybe a lap and a half, and that was cool, but then some guys passed me, and I was in about fifth. I was hitting 40 second laps almost perfectly, shoutout to my coach for letting me know loud and clear. Came through the mile in 5:21. I felt pretty smooth. On one of these laps there was a kid who I tried to pass and then he sped up so i had to wait till after a turn to pass him. Then he passed me again but I got him shortly after. This part of the race is where I started to loose some focus and started hurting. Ran some slower laps. But then I looked up ahead and I saw a kid in neon green, so I decided to maybe try and catch hime. Final 400 came and I didn't have a ton of evergy but I know I kicked it in somewhat. I closed in a 36 second lap, so not too slow, not too fast.  Caught the neon green on the last straightaway, passed him, then he passed me again, and we both did a sprinters lean at the line and he beat me by a fraction of a second. It was nice not having to like line up. 

Ran a 10:44! Which could probably be like a 22 second PR if you compare it to my 3200 PR of 11:03. I'll keep that PR seperate just for organization, but yeah, obviously my 3200 PR isn't 11:03 any more, it would be like 10:40. I made sure to watch the fast heat, shoutout to Garek Bielaczyc for running a 9:00, he lapped like everybody and broke the meet record by nine seconds. Cooled down for 2 miles outside. The fog cleared up so that was nice. There was actually alot of space to run because of the huge parking lot. I'm running just the 800 tomorrow so I can truely see how fit I am in that event. I think I can get pretty close to my PR, so I'm excited. PR is 2:04.7, and at Simplot last year if you ran low 2:04 or lower than you qualified for finals, so hopefully I can prove tomorrow that I can squeeze in there come two weeks from now.