Today was awesome. Got in about 10 minute warm up and then stretched and did some strides. I was in the second fastest heat of the 1600 with Sean and Thomas. There were a lot of guys in our heat so I just wanted to stay in the pack and settle into the pace and move my way up through out. Since there were so many people, guys would swing into lane 4 to try and pass so I would just scoot into lane 2 or 1, so I ran better than my 2 mile a couple weeks ago in that perspective. The pace felt good, in most my races I try to stay consistent in the middle laps, which I did really well tonight, and then kick hard. We picked it up with about 500 to go and I was in about 7th. Then with 300 to go I started really pushing to try and catch Thom and Sean and pretty much just kick it, and I actually had a good amount left in the tank. So I had a strong last lap and ended up 4th in my heat with a 9 second pr of 4:31! I ended up getting 17th overall and which is good. I felt super great about it because I almost completely skipped the 4:30's. Sean and Thomas both pr'd with a 4:33 and 34.
I cooled down and warmed up for then 800 haha at the same time. I did some strides and stretched before the 800 and I called that good. I hopped in the second fastest heat, which was 2:04, which was the time I ended up getting so that was cool. I was satisfied with my mile, so I just told myself to stay with the pack and then kick hard. I pretty much did that. Good first lap, then we started going with 300 left. With the straight away left I had Frazier Williamson -Davis a few meters ahead and then Chris Hughes -Woods Cross a few meters ahead of him. I tried to catch Frazier, and I did. So then I said catch Chris. I ran out of track and Chris got me by .04. When I had like 50 meters left I looked up at the timer and saw 1:57, and I thought to myself, dang, am I really going this fast? Well I finished with a 2:04, a 2 second pr from a relay, but if you only count open 800's its a 6 second pr! I got 17th place overall, the same place as the mile. It was good that I went in a fast heat so the other guys made it a lot easier for me to get a good time. I am running the 3200 at simplot with Thom and it should be super fun. Making it to Finals is my goal! I am remarkably good shape right now so every meet I get more and more excited for outdoor, great things to come
Shout out to Sean for killing the 2 mile! He ran a pr of 4:33 in the mile and then only an hour later he ran a 9:48-9:49 in the 2 mile! Call him Cam Levins dude! #doubledouble
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