I didn't have that bad feeling in my stomach again and this time I was confident going into my race and ready to go under 4:55, I warmed up good before, I was feeling pretty good except this dry taste in my mouth. At the start of the race I didn't get out good enough and I knew I had to be in the front of the pack so I tried to catch them. I ran 70 seconds my first lap, on my second lap I didn't really know what happened but I was getting slower, my second lap was 2:28 and 3:50 my third lap and then three or four kids took off and passed me. I thought I was going pretty fast but I guess not. After the race I realized I wasn't pushing myself hard enough because I recovered too quickly. I think I may have also been doubting my ability in the race to compete with those guys and may have adjusted my pace according to them. I just got to keep on trying to feel like I am running faster each time and not to hold back if my knee's or legs were starting to hurt. I cooled down and rehyrdated after
I wanted to talk to Buhrley about my race and see if he had any ideas on what I could do, but that really didn't happen all he said that is I have one more chance to run under 5 again and so basically don't blow it, but because I talked to him he realized he didn't have a medley team together so I was put on the relay for the 800 meters, I knew that we wouldn't have that great of a team but I was just excited that I would be able to run the 800 one more time before my track career is coming to an end. I just spent the rest of the time after that to warm up and get rid of my soreness from the 1600! It really helped I just kept on doing drills and running according to what my legs needed and I was ready to run a great 800! I was super pumped before my race because first of all I saw Ryan go under 2 minutes in the 800 so I was freaking out after that! Then Zach went under 2:10 in his 800 and everyone was just going nuts! It got me pretty motivated I just had this sublime feeling and I wanted to be apart of that great feeling that we just witnessed. So I was motivating my relay team and I was just ready to leave it all on the track. It took them forever to start the race, we had an okay 200 and the other 200 runner made it up, but Ben was not feeling good from his other race and was just doing his best to surive the 400 and was right behind Clearfield in last and I was ready to race. I had a good handoff and Clearfields sucked so I got out in front running what I felt like was good pace, the Clearfield kid came trucking from behind me, but I knee that he was just surging to catch up and was going way faster than his 800 pace so I didn't try to stay with him for the surge because I knew that I would die too. However Cody said it looked like I gave up so maybe I shouldn't have let him get the gap too big. I was gaining on him the last lap I really increased my pace and was reeling him in, He was getting closer and closer and then I sling shotted him from the turn to the straight away and we were just in a dead on sprint for third place. I was doing my very best but my legs just weren't fast enough and he barely got me at the end partly to do with the fact that he stopped before the line and I ran through and didn't give up! I got a second P.R of 2:15 and I was pretty satisfied with my race and ended my last 800 good. I wish I was able to run it more and focus on it but I didn't get my sub 5 goal in the mile in time. I am ready for region and I am not leaving anything behind. Hopefully I'll be able to run the 3200 one more time.
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