4:19.15

Today I raced a mile at the BU Valentine's Invitational. The race went pretty well, and I ended up running 4:19.15. Total mileage for the day was 8, which gave me 58 for the week.

Warming up I felt pretty crappy, which I think was a result of going out on Thursday night after work. Having been a little under the weather, I didn't really know what to expect in terms of time. After 3 miles on Comm. Ave, and some strides on the infield, I laced up the spikes and stepped on the line for my last race of the indoor "season".

The race got off to a pretty bad start when the started asked someone to take their foot back from the line, and immediately fired the gun as I was leaning back. Needless to say, I got off the line pretty slowly, which sucks, because I'm usually pretty good at it. After settling into last, I figured I should just bide my time until the race opened up. I was able to do that for the first half of the race, which went through the 800 in about 2:13. I was hoping to go out a little quicker than this, but moving up to the front would have required a pretty massive effort over the first half of the race. Right at a half mile I decided to get a move on and moved up to about 3rd place. At this point, I was pretty much "all in" and made a serious drive to the finish. The last half went pretty well (read = hurt a whole lot), and I finished in third (in my heat) and ran 4:19.15. This is good and bad. Good because any time under 4:20 is pretty decent, I ran the first half of the race in lane two, and becuase I was feeling a little sick. It was bad becuase my p.r. is 4:18.99, and one of my goals on the To-Do List was to run a p.r. in the mile. Less than a quarter of a second.... damn.

So, not so sure how tomorrow's run is going to go, considering we're supposed to get some snow tonight. We'll see...

And finally, I'd like to mention that I ate Anna's tonight, which puts me at 8 times in the last 10 days. Yes. At somepoint I'm going to write a whole post on Anna's and may even devise some contest where I see how many nights in a row I can have it. I'm guessing I could get between 14 and 20 days before it started to get difficult (and not because I'd be getting sick of it, but becuase at somepoint I might not be in town, or there might be some other reason why I'd be unable to eat Anna's).