Today was awesome. I did a shake out run the same place as thursday. Felt good. Warmed up and stretched and still felt good. Doing strides with guys like Elijah Armstrong and Zac Jacklin just got me super pumped for the race, I love running with fast guys because I know i can run fast times #respectallfearnone
Start was good, I wasn't going slow but was in last once again because it was the finals and the pack went out crazy fast. HUGE shout out to Chris Hughes. He is a good friend from Woods Cross and he was cheering me on every lap on the north side of the track. Every few laps he would yell "get me a guy" so i'd surge and pass somebody and it helped a lot. I moved a few spots by the mile and was at 4:47! So naturally in the next few laps I was getting tired but Bryce Ferguson from Davis was passing people so I went with him and hung right on his tail for most of the race and we moved well. I looked up at the clock on one of the laps and saw 6:30 and told myself just hold on for a little longer.
The atmosphere was crazy. Elijah and Levi were going for the meet record so they were hauling. The croud got into it and it helped me out alot, even tho I got lapped by them..... So I ended up passing Bryce with a few laps to go. With 200 left I started pushing really hard, I took a look behind me and no one was there, so I tried to catch all the guys I could. I passed a Bountiful kid and got sort of close to Camren Todd from Davis.
Finished 9:42.99 so I'll just round down and tell people 9:42 ;) Good race because it was on a 200 track and I set a pr just two days earlier. I got 8th place. A lot of guys did the mile but for a huge race like Simplot i thought 8th place was great. Sadly I got lapped but Elijah got 9:01 so not too disappointed. After the pr's I got I'm looking into qualifying for Arcadia this April, I sure hope i can make it, it would be so fun to run at. I'd do the 3200 and maybe we can get the 4x800 team to go!
Shout out to the 3 sophomores that beat me :( slow down.
Shout out to Thomas for getting 4:31 in the mile, a new PR!
Biggest shout out of all to Coach Jamie for being an amazing coach and helping us Lehi guys kill it.
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