Warmed up for 5.5 miles!!! Coach had me come out and help her out at the course starting at 1 pm all the way until 5:30. She wanted me to run some parts of the course to see if it worked and stuff, and between that and the marking/ribboning I ended up with a FAR too long warmup. Anyways my legs were dead from yesterdays intervals and Saturdays race. I didn't know what to think about today. As the the race started I didn't feel any zip to my stride and my first mile was slower than I wanted. 5:07 according to my GPS. I had two goals for this race: win and go sub 15 (because this is probably my only chance to do it.). On the second mile I started to feel better, but I guess it's because I slowed down 5:20. Spencer Neaville from Dixie was right on my back the entire race and on the last mile I heard somebody cheering for Eric and I thought: Great...Dixie Invite all over again. So I knew I had to make my move then. As I rounded the turn onto the field I looked to the left on saw Eric considerably behind (he did a tough workout yesterday and is prepping more for BYU invite saturday) so I knew I only had to worry about Spencer. I put in a surge and noticed him struggling to respond so I knew I had it if I stayed tough. With about 400-500m left I kicked hard and ended up winning by ten seconds I think with a 14:53 (accomplished both my goals) I saved my watch splits and I ended up getting 2.9 miles and an average pace of 5:08. Which means my last mile would have been around 5 flat. I wished I could figure out my last 400m because it felt FAST I think there is a way to look it up if I connect it to the computer, so I will see if I can find it. I don't feel like I pushed as hard as Vegas, but I was still pretty exhausted both mentally and physically so I don't think that could have been possible anyways. I am pretty glad with how the race went and I ran 50 seconds faster than last year!!! Last year the course was a teeny bit different but I got the same length so it shouldn't really change too much.
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