Been hitting full mileage straight through this meet. Coach told me to dial it back to conserve for the Invite on Saturday in which I'm doing the 3200 as that event has been struggling for me, which is probably more due to circumstance rather than my actual abilities in the distance. He told me to win but take it as easy as possible doing so. Nice almost perfectly even split 67-68-68-68 mile where I coasted in at the end. It felt really smooth and comfortable and I was surprised to receive such a good time. Same deal in the 800, although at a faster pace, negative split a 64-62 for a very smooth 2:06. I was very happy to find, given that I trained through this meet, that a significantly lower effort yielded such great times! This is a positive result and means great things for the future of my season. Also positive that Watson, a very very hard worker, cruised his way to a solo 10:28 in the 3200, a mere 8 seconds off of his 10:20 PR from the Eason Invitational, even being on PR pace until the last 800. It is my firm conviction that he has the ability to run under 10:10 this Saturday. Completed my mileage using long warmups and cooldown runs.
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