4:04.55

Today I ran the 1500 at the first Tufts indoor meet. Based on my race at BU, I seeded myself at 4:10, and thought I'd run right around there. On my warmup I felt pretty crappy and wondered how I'd feel in the race. In the fastest heat was Matt Fortin, Ryan Gough, Fabien Majeia, and Mike Davitian of Williams. These kids are pretty good, and I figured I'd be hanging on the back of the pack for most of the race.

The gun went off and I settled in around 6th or 7th. I tried to relax as much as I could during the first 400m, and to not think about the pace, or where I was in terms of place. This worked well, and we went thought the 400 in 66. I tried to maintain my position as best I could over the next 400, and we went through the 8 in 2:12 (about 6 seconds faster than at BU). With three laps to go I started to focus on moving by people, as my legs still felt pretty fresh at this point. I got up on my toes and was able to get by Fortin, and one of the Keene kids. With 400 to go, the clock read 3:01, and I knew I was running a pretty good race. During the last 400m I was waiting to rig up really bad, but it never happened. I think I kicked pretty well, and ended up running 4:04.55. This was really pleasant suprise. Last year at this meet when I was running for Tufts, I ran 4:03.3. To only be 1 sec back of last year is awesome... especially considering I haven't been super serious about my mileage, and have only run two workouts so far.

Today made me excited to go after my 5k (15:32) and mile (4:18.99) pr's this season. I think with a few more workouts the 5k should be no problem (although, I've said that in the past... there's a reason I haven't run that time since freshmen year haha)... the mile might be a little more difficult. I think the plan for the next few weeks is to run the Has-Been's mile at Tufts next weekend, take the 27/28th off from racing, run the 5k on Feb 4th at Tufts, and then the mile at the Valentine's Invite at BU on Feb 11th.

I totalled 8 miles today to give me 64 for the week. Good total. Long run with Bromka tomorrow...

(I'll update this post when results and pictures become available.)