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February 5, 2011 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: N/A

Comments:
Yes! Finally broke 2:10 and PR'd by a good second. 2:08.flat, and I'm quite proud of how I raced it. I was cut off right away for the second time in a row, but that may have been a blessing in disguise. It kept my pace under control for the first half (which I went through in a relatively slow 63.mid), which allowed me to turn it on to pass Sam and a Freeport kid during the second half.

Unfortunately, I still came in second to Thomas, who ran a 2:06.mid. He went out really fast, so I was catching up with him during the second half, but I couldn't coax out enough energy to catch up with him. Still, this is continuing the trend of my running around two seconds faster each week, so hopefully that'll continue to 2:06 and then, hopefully (although this is wishful thinking), 2:04.

Anyway! Up until 10 minutes before the 2 mile, I thought I was going to scratch again, but when I saw that no one close to my time would be running (Charlie Jones of North Haven and Henry were ahead of me, and there was only one other runner--a Freeport runner that was way behind), so it would be low-pressure. I ran a decent time considering the circumstances; I slowed up a lot from the first mile (around 5:24) and the second mile (5:50ish), which is kind of embarrassing, but I'll survive. The main reason I ran it was that it's another 6 points added to my seasonal sum of points, in addition to the 8 from the 800 and 2.5 from the 4x2 relay.

I couldn't find Jorma to ask about my 4x2 leg, but despite the 2 mile, I think it was pretty good. We actually beat Greely this time, and I'm pretty sure I broke 26 seconds (Edit: 26.3; Yeah I was wrong, I think I was just tired from the 2 mile so it felt like I was going faster than I actually was).

Good meet, overall. I even got a cooldown in, albeit a short one. The warmup was pretty fast, but felt good.