Today was the first day of our annual city county meet. I was set to go in the 1600. I knew it would be Mike and I pushing the pace but I didn't know how I really felt warming up. Alek, Dylan, and I warmed up an easy 15 minutes and Mike joined soon after we started. We fianlly lined up and the gun went off. I took to the lead and led us through at 32-33 for the first 200 with a pretty crappy head wind and Mike right on my tail. As we hit the home straight, I moved aside for Mike to take the lead because that was the plan. We hit 67 (too slow but it hurt) and Mike lead the 2nd lap. As we hit the home straight, Mike moved aside and I took the led as planned, again we hit 67 (2:14, slow but really hurt). I took the 3rd lap and knew I had to start pushing but I was really hurting by this time. I lead us through at 66 (3:20 dying almost) and Mike soon took the lead. We went all out and as we hit the final straight Mike gapped me a little and I was too tired to care enough to try to catch him. Mike finished first at 4:26, I was second at 2:27-28, Alek was third at 4:28-29 which is a 4-5 second pr, and Dylan was 4:29-30 which is a 8-9 second pr (still unsure official results). It was really awesome to sweep it because Ogden has never done it in this meet. It is also the first time Ogden High school has ever had 4 guys sub 4:30 which is pretty sweet. However I'm unsatified with my personal time.
The guys and I cooled down pretty short because Mike and I still had the medley to run. We warmed up 1200 meters and stretched and it was time to race again. Our 200 meter runners did pretty well and kept within a second or two from Weber's team. Mike was then up on the 400. He underestimated the pace of the 400 and ran a too conservative but it was too late (he ran a 56). I was the anchor and took off trying to get the Weber kid who had a really huge lead on me. The Bonneville 800 runner was right on my tail and passed me on the first lap. I sat on him and we came through at 58 for the first lap. With 300 left, I passed the Bonneville runner and tried to gap him. The Weber runner still had a big lead on me and I only closed it a little. As a team we ended up taking 2nd in the medley (3:44). I ran a 2:00 for my 800 split but so had the Weber 800 runner so thats why I couldn't close the gap. It was a tough race and we missed state qualifying by a couple hundreths of seconds but I'm still happy with my 4 second pr. I cooled down an easy mile and a half and streched.
Tomorrow is day 2 for the meet and Im set to run the open 800, along with the 4x400 (with Alek, Dylan, and Nathan or someone else?).
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