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Pre Regions Track 2012

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Salt Lake City,Ut,US

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Jun 16, 2010

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Male

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Age Division Winner

Short-Term Running Goals:

Training for the SLC marathon. 

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Stay healthy and keep running with my puppy.

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Race: Pre Regions Track 2012 (1 Miles) 00:05:25, Place overall: 8, Place in age division: 7
Total Distance
5.00

Today was the first outdoor track meet of the season. So when I get to the track, Dakota said we had to measure out and level the shotput pit for the throwers..... Great. So after doing that, I go and change and go to the stretching circle. After doing the stretching circle. Me and Sarah S. decide to go on a warm up while the hurdlers are going on. I do 2 laps with her, then go into my speed changes and I do 2 laps of speed changes. Then I grab my spikes, and go to the starting line. I get to the starting line when they were starting the 100 meter dash so I have time to do drills. I do some drills then do another 2 laps warm up with Caden and Scott. After that, I stretch and do drill and strides with the team. They finally call us up to the line and I was in spot 6. We all line up, the gun goes off and were off.

So I felt like I went out fast but I didn't think I went out as fast as I did, My first 400 was 66 which is way fast for the first lap. So going around the turn of the second lap I was in 2nd place, Scott comes up to me and I stay with him for the rest of that lap and we go through the 800 at 2:32ish. That is when I fell apart. I did this first half way to fast so I couldn't do a negative split. I try to hang on that third lap, in which time Natalie passed me along the home stretch and Dakota was coming up on me. I went through the 1200 at 4 flat. So then my arms were totally exhausted at this point and they are all curled up to my body so I decide to drop them down, for a few meters and give them a rest. With 200 meters to go, Dakota catches up to me and pulls away from me by about 12-15 meters and then we were going the same pace so I couldn't pass him again. Then at the line a judge kid passes me right then. But I didn't care because I looked at my watch and I did a 4 second PR and 9 seconds faster than last Saturday. I PR'd today even with my horrible race and how it played out. I was happy with my time but not with my place or with how I got my time.

Then for a cooldown I jogged around for 2.5 miles then I timed the rest of the meet. Timing is so stressful!!!! 

Black Nike Free Run+ 2 Racing Flats Miles: 4.00Neon Orange Spikes Miles: 1.00
Comments
From sarah on Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 08:43:21 from 205.127.196.84

Heck yeah it is!!! I was worried I would mess someone's time up...Ha. Nice job!!! At least you PRed!!! That's always an awesome accomplishment.

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