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Assault on Sub 9

May 9, 2011 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Today was a weird day. It wasn't an official race,but I had been planning on doing it for two months, so I knew I had to put my best effort forth. I drank way too much saturday night, so that probably didn't help, and I was kind of pessimistic going into the trial. Didn't matter though because I knew what I had to do. When I got to the track I expected to find just a few people. Instead, Christos, Merwine, Tyler, Nick, O'Connor, Labar, Flach, and Kenny were all there. Everybody except Sam, Merwine, Kenny, and Flach were clearly hammered. McClimon showed up too, and gave me a nice little pep talk. I really am gonna miss that guy.
Kenny led us through the first 800 in 2:13. Then Flach took it for the next 4 laps. We hit 1600 in 4:34, and I had wanted to run 4:30 or under for it. So I was getting a bit nervous. But then we started really cranking and surprisingly, I was able to hold on. Flach dropped off 6 laps in. The last 800 was the only part of the race that really hurt. Kenny came back in to lead me through the next lap, and I struggled to keep up. But with just under a lap to go I blew by Kenny, not hitting a super fast closing split but still managing to close in a 65. Total time was 9:07. Realistically, that was a great goal to have. I broke 9:10, anyway. Didn't even bother cooling down because I now have two full weeks off. I am really happy about the way everything went.