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Simplot Games Preliminaries

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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: Simplot Games Preliminaries (1 Miles) 00:05:40, Place in age division: 9
Total Distance
4.00

Today when we arrived at Simplot I did a lap on the track while my mom was waiting in line to get my packet. I did the lap on the track to get used to the track again. Then we went over to the hotel and relaxed before we went out to dinner. 

When we arrived at the stadium again, my team was there so we went over their and cheered for Chris and Natalie running the 3200. Then started the never ending wait for the boys heat 16 of the 1600. At about heat 8 I went on a 2 mile warm up with Bill, Tomy, Natalie, Abigail, Sarah and Sara, Dakota, and Nate. Since Dakota was in my heat we only went 2 miles because then we had to go check in at the bull pin. While waiting for my heat to be called down, I did strides, drills, and stretched.

The officials lined us all up, I was seeded 7th and Dakota was seeded 9th. So we go on the track and do some more strides and drills while waiting for the heat in front of us to go. So we line up and the gun goes off. I get out pretty fast, in the middle of the pack maybe more towards the front. From my first step I was exhausted! So we go around the first lap at 39 seconds which is what I needed to be at. For the first 400 we were all still a group and we came in at 78. The 600 I didn't see but the 800 was a 2:36ish and we again were all still a pack. This is when Dakota passed me. As soon as Dakota passed me I mentally gave up. I didn't see the next few laps times but all I could tell was I was getting farther and farther away from my goal time and of my goal to beat Dakota. So going around the final lap I try to kick it in but I bet I was going faster on my first lap than I was on my last lap. My final time was a very disappointing 5:40 or 5:42. I could of have a really good race but I mentally gave up and decided not to push. At the end of my race I was totally wiped though. I could barely walk across the field back to get my stuff. Then I did a very slow and very embarrassing/disappointing mile cooldown around Holt arena while cheering on the other milers. GREAT JOB NATALIE FOR TAKING SIMPLOT FOR THE WIN!!!!! 

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