Saturday was a a good day. I had my Brother and Dad visiting for the week and had a solid race weekend with a 1000m and a 4x400m. It's been quite a while since I've done either of these events, so I was pretty excited. I couldn't ask for a better race setup. We had a good field (basically every guy in my training group), a pacer, and great weather. The talk within the group was sub 2:20. Which is basically 1:50-1:52 at the 800m mark and close hard. I'll be honest, seeing the splits on paper seems easy but getting after it, that's always the challenge.
Take a look at the vid (I'm the Orange). I was around 1:53 through 800m. I made a strong move with 250m to go but what can I say....too little too late. Lincoln had a good surge early and when I finally got up to him held me off well. I need come off the turn HARD and BELIEVE that I can push through the line. The win would be great, but a PB's a PB. You can't be disappointed when you run faster than you have before. I ran well and closed hard. The way I look at it is my race is 200m less. I closed well in this, so I gotta have a stronger kick in an 800m!!!
4x400m was 3 hours later (yup long day waiting around). The order was Myself, Daren St.Clair, Andrew Ellerton, and Matt Lincoln. I opened in a 48.6.....I'll take it. And we went on to win in a 3:15 (2nd was 3:20). I started way out there in lane 7 with the closest guy to me in 4. As soon as the gun went we were in first and stayed there. ha ha. Not bad for a couple MD boys. Put us in a pack and I think I'd have a faster time.
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