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Thompson Invitational

January 29, 2011 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: Indoors (fh)

Comments:
no expectations for this one or today as a whole. just wanted to get in a solid mile off of a few workouts with low intensity. the race started and i went to the back, as expected and somewhat planned. i stayed towards the back until the last lap when i actually had a 'kick.' it was a pretty simple race and i'm satisfied. 2:16, 4:33 (get rest of splits). like the home meet setting

on the cool down of the mile and the warm up for this 3k i felt pretty tuckered. we had to run back to the house for some shorts and i really just wanted to stay there & curl up in my bed. got back to the fh and did the usual drills and strides then stood around dreading the race. so got into it hoping to run with tait. anyway, i was all by myself the entire way cause i couldnt muster anything up to catch the guy in front of me. =9:19 (ill get splits soon). i'm kinda happy, but it was damn hard.

jumped into the 3rd leg of the 4x4 and well, this could've been the most interesting race of my life, although my shortest. first, i DQ'd our team, sorry. second, this stupid fuck face of a midget was pissin me off. let me tell the story. so this small hispanic/mexican guy (who cares, they're all the same..sorry lugo) got the baton ahead of me & was just crawling around the first turn. so i waited until the back straight to attempt a pass. he kindly moved out to lane 2 so i tried to jump on the inside pass (i know its illegal but it was there..at the time). so we were shoulder to shoulder and he starts cutting in on me & elbowing me right before the turn. i let him have the position through the turn. the front straight was a different story. he did the same thing again, probably knowing id bite. so this time i fought back all the way down to right in front of the scores table where i threw him into lane 3, took the position, and never looked back. i guess the officials, along with entire audience, spotted it cause it was pretty blatant? the poor schmuck must have split a 60, what he was doing actually trying to hold me off ill never know. anyway, i know a runner should never pass on the inside in the sprinting world, but the jack off was pissing me off & needed some correcting. ha, he had on a purple speed suit too, fucking moron. i split a poor 58, but with a brawl i had to take care of i think i fared pretty well.