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May 3, 2012 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: Cold, overcast

Comments:
Not a bad meet. It was ridiculously cold and I felt like I was freezing up leading to the 800, so my start was very slow and my first 100 meters were a clusterfuck. However I quickly made my way to fourth behind Tom, Thomas (who was coming off the mile so I wasn't worried about him), and Spencer. We went through the 200 in 30 and hit the 400 at around 61. At this point Spencer and I passed Thomas and fell in behind Tom. It became a bit of a gutsy race as we held onto him leading into the last 2. I ran on the outside lane for the last curve trying to pass Spencer but failing, and ended up having to settle for outkicking him during the last 100. Rasche pulled away a bit and ran 2:02.8, I was 2:04.00, and Spencer was 2:04.3 (demolishing my old freshmen record of 2:09. That time didn't even last two years). This is a good sign for our 4x8 since Spencer has come back from his injury and is now way past where he was during Indoor, and we're both comfortably under 2:05.

Anyway After a 12 minute cooldown I warmed up a bit, so I wasn't feeling nervous for the 4, although I was still a little tired. When I got the baton we were way behind York (Thomas ran a 58), so I tried to reel in Tom hoping he would lay back with no one near him, but it didn't work out that way. I still got a nice time, Jorma said 53.high. Our team time was 3:38, but we've got plenty of time to get that down. Unfortunately without their best runner York still ran 3:32, which wins states almost every year. We'll see how that plays out.