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HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

March 5, 2010 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: Brandies University Indoor Track

Comments:
So today for me personally and for the whole distance medly team probably went about as good as it possibly could have gone. We got 4th which is a lot better than last last year and we set the school record which I didn't even know existed. So Phil popped of in 3:07-3:08 with a great leg. He'd never run it before and he ran great to put us in position. He ran right in there with thoe guys on the other relays which was awsome. Jim then grabed the stick and ran a great quarter moving us up in position like 1 or two spots. Kurt grabbed it and ran an indoor pr finally breaking 2. And then it came to me. I knew I got out hard and this Wash U guy sat on me. There was no clock or anything and no one gave me splits so I just kinda tried to hold it together and hold position. The Wash U guy passed me going into the 3rd lap about on the backstreach. Me and Kurt had looked at who was running for what team and I knew he was seeded in the open mile at 4:20 so I just sat on him thinking he'd pull me to a good time and I'd out kick him in the end. After we hit 600 to go once we got on the back streach I felt him slowing down so I passed him and then just tried to catch the U Chicago guy that was in front of me and was dying cuz hes an idiot and tried to go out with Matt Turlip who runs like 4:09. So with about 100 to go I got up on the U Chicago guy's sholder. He fought me but I was able to just keep moving past him and kicked home to win. I found out later that he dropped the baton shortly after I passed him. I got done and I rember thinking that I had run fast but not really knowing what happened. Then people started telling me I ran 4:16 and at first I didn't believe them. And then Coach Lanese runs over and shoves a watch in my face and it says 4:15.97 I was just in shock. I couldn't believe it. Amazing day overall. School record on the DMR is just the icing on the cake.
Ice bath, streach, roll, everything to get ready for tomorrow's open mile. Congrats to everybody on Day 1. Elaine ran 17:04 for an auto time to NCAA's and 2nd fastest time in the nation. And all the 5k people pr'ed and the girls DMR was like less than a second of the school record so amazing day for everyone