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The Eliminator: Finally without injury

April 8, 2018 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Freshman year: Eliminator wasn't a thing
Sophomore year: Only a week back from a month long injury and so I got dicked on.
Junior year: Again, coming back from a month-long injury so I just didn't even participate

But now it's senior and this bad man has not been injured since June. This was a lot of fun. I even got a couple of stage wins that no one cares about! Things got really intense when it came down the Final Four of me, Whinnery, Riley, and Austin. We split under a 62 on the lap, and I was genuinely scared that Whinnery was going to get me down the home stretch when he was screaming. But alas, it just was not meant to be and it came down to me, Austin, and Riley.

I thought I had a chance. I passed Austin at the 200m and was sitting on Riley's shoulder. We came into the home stretch and suddenly it was the three of us side by side on the home stretch. Shit. Austin didn't die like I hoped he would. And both of these fellas raced yesterday. I shifted into my absolute top gear (which is something my body has not seen in a VERY long time) but it just wasn't enough. Both Austin and Riley edged me at the line, but not after I did some Paul Chelimo shit and tried to literally pull myself through them.

Really quality experience and a lot of fun, and I am proud with how close I kept it with a couple of our top mid-d runners. Here were my lap splits if anyone cares:

1) 1:24.8
2) 1:32.9
3) 1:41.6
4) 1:39.1
5) 1:29.8
6) 1:15.7
7) 1:18.4
8) 1:12.4 (stage win!)
9) 1:19.5 (stage win!)
10) 1:15.6
11) 1:35.4
12) 1:01.5
13) 1:02.0 (eliminated)