BYU XC Invitational- Well when I finished the race I wasn't super happy with how it went until I thought it through a little more. First off this was my 4th race in 11 days!!! I don't really think I could have expected much better than I did, secondly I ran almost 40 seconds faster than last year, and considering the previous comment that's really good improvement I think. So as the race started I wanted to run a little more conservatively than I have been doing lately (lately I have just been jumping right to the lead or sticking with the leaders) however I still ended up slowing consideraably my second mile even though I still felt basically fresh. So I need to address that problem, but I think for me this season what works best is to simply just gut it out from the start because it seems as if no matter how fast my first mile is, I still slow down the same amount my second mile. Anyways I continued to get passed on the early part of the third mile to where I dropped to about 17 or 18th place. With 1000m to go I started pushing and caught up a bit more only to finish hard on the track in 12th. I felt WAY to fresh the entire time and didn't have a very gutsy race at all. However, when I thought about it, if I am racing 4 times in 11 days along with hard workouts in between, I can't expect much better. So after thinking it through I decided I was happy with the race especially because my legs felt stronger than ever, and I improved a lot from last year with not much effort.
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