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Falcon Invite

September 17, 2011 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
2 mile warm up
8k race (5:16, 5:39, 5:37, 5:53, 5:33)
2 mile cool down

Warm up felt a little tiring but that always means its going to be a good race, right? Went out wanting to run around 5:40 pace and hit 28:20 or so. First mile was really fast for everyone, but it still felt relaxed and easy. Second mile I slowed it down to compensate for my first mile and still felt like I needed to go faster. Coop and I ended up running together for the first couple miles and it started to string out in the meadow. Third mile was good too, I was happy that I could hold the pace through the meadow without losing focus. Went through the woods and came up the hill behind the baseball field and started to die, thus the slow fourth mile. Jordan blasted past me at that point out of nowhere and ran up with Kevin. There was a Rockford guy right in front of me in the last mile and I made it my goal to beat him. Worked my way up to him but couldn't catch him plus Mendenhall from Rockford passed me in the last couple meters. I came in right at 28:00 flat, 5th on the team. Our top 5 spread was 42 seconds or so...sick! I was really surprised about who I was running around in the conference... Sulkin from Aurora, Mendenhall, and other freshmen that I thought would be way better than me, so thats exciting! We ended up losing to Aurora by 2 points, I kind of feel bad for not outkicking those two rockford guys, but we didn't have Braun running. Overall, great race, missed my grass PR by only 1 second, and improved by 1:21 from last year on this course!