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WMCs @ USM-Gorham

February 10, 2012 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: N/A

Comments:
Not a bad meet. We ended up not running our A team for the 4x8, so I got to sit that out and stay fresh for my mile. The mile went out in a good pace and I ran behind Finitz for the entire race. I feel I might have been able to run around 4:40 if I had turned it on more for the last 4 or 600 meters, but with the 800 coming up the mental block was too difficult to overcome. Anyway, after sitting around awhile and jogging a bit, the 800 was up. After one restart, we went out insanely slow. This was the fast heat, with guys who were in the low 2s, yet somehow we managed to go out in 33 or 34. That's by far my slowest lap I've run in any 800 this year. Hell, my first mile lap was around the same time, and the first lap of a mile is a bit longer than 200m. Anyway, I came through the half in around 67, and that was when everyone began turning it on. My second lap was 64, putting me in seventh with 2:11, and in front of me was a huge pack of finishers between 2:05 and 2:06. So it ended up being a really slow race, and I just couldn't compete. Next week at states I'm going to try and go out on my own terms, just in case the race ends up going out slow again.

Anyway, I thought I was done at that point, but Toby ended up getting hurt so I was put in the 4x2. I had to anchor due to the order already being set in stone, so when I got the baton we had an okay lead over York since Reid and I had a practically perfect hand off, but I knew the York anchor was probably far faster than I was. It ended up coming down to the last 10 meters, where he edged me out with a surprise surge. I was disappointed, but at least my leg was good. Somewhere around 24.mid is what I heard from Jorma.