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Mile Time Trial

May 1, 2019 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

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Last hoorah for my freshman year. Kind of sad about that, but the season's not over–I'm so excited to watch the guys race at conferences this weekend, at Swat Last Chance, and eventually Nationals. It's gonna be a blast.

Will and I were the only ones doing the time trial, and I had Woodhouse pacing me out front, Scott to the side, and Jeff and Simon behind me, with me for the first 2.5 laps. They were all super great. Special shoutout to Woodhouse for being a beast out in front of me and speeding up perfectly when I croaked "faster" on the first 200 of the third lap. Goal was 72s, which Woodhouse guided me to perfectly twice (twice!). Those felt super super controlled. I feel like I probably could have done 71s on both of those and kicked in the same amount of time. Third lap was probably about a 70, which was half with the pacing goats, and then I kicked in all by myself in 69 or so (add the couple seconds at the beginning since it's a full mile to get the final time). I felt super strong for the last 600 which I was completely alone for. Finished in 4:47.25, which is a 12 second PR–almost couldn't believe it when Tom showed me on his stopwatch. My struggle to break 5, which I'd only gone under once in the 16 and once in the mile, now really feels like a thing of the past. I know I can go even faster than what I did today, but I'm proud of what I did out there and I'm really happy with how this season ended up going.

I'm so grateful for all the teammates I had out there pacing and cheering for me today–I couldn't have done it with out you. Thanks goats. I'll probably post a longer reflection on this entire first year of college running soon, but maybe after we take care of business as a team these next few weeks.