McMullen Mile Report (Mike)

This race went extremely poorly for both of us. We came in with high expectations, myself having PR-ed by 6 seconds in the past two years (4:42 –> 4:36 –> 4:30), and Josh with a similar progression capped off by an impressive 4:29 last year.

At least Josh had an excuse for running poorly...

He had to chase Hazel around the track pre-race

The weather was perfect. Low-70s, slight breeze, partly cloudy. World records have been set on such days. Fortunately, we were looking to run in the 4:20s rather than 3:43. But that didn’t matter because we finished so far from our goal that we may as well have been “going for” sub-4 (or something).

We came through lap one in 68 seconds. Slow start, but not disastrous.

I was at 2:16 with 809 meters to go. Not good, but all was not yet lost. During laps three and four I made a half-hearted attempt to pass another runner who ultimately beat me by 3 seconds down the stretch.

mm12 — "Powering" through lap four in a blazing ~70 seconds

I finished in 4:37, Josh in 4:41.

mm15 — This picture aptly characterizes my feelings about the race

Following a solid 5K in May, this was a big disappointment. However, it was great to spend a couple days in Rochester and catch up with Josh, Lisa, and Hazel. Results are here and a race video from Boyce is below. We were not fast enough to keep up with the camera.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFbtYPRKZc4[/youtube]

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