I ran a dumb race, and it cost me from having a good race.

I went out with someone I knew I was close too, but I could tell we were heading out too hard, for me anyway, but I felt like being stubborn and kept with him. We hit the mile marker at 5:24.. Some people do well going out hard and holding on, I've never ran a good race by doing that and this was 10-15 seconds faster then I wanted to open up. He went on to dropping his PR by 30 seconds with a 17:03 (huge success for him) I went on to fade through out the race. Mile 1.5-2.5 were my worse and I just felt real sloppy during that section but I started to regather my self right at the end.

Now I'm not really upset with my time, 17:57 is fine by me.. if you said I ran 17:20 I would still say I didn't run well, I just didn't feel like I ran what I could of out there regardless of the time.

If anything I feel like this proves I'm in good shape and improving if I'm breaking 18 on a off race where I ran stupid.. I should be well into the 17s on a good day.

When ever I run my race, how I feel I should run it, I have a great race. When I run like I did today, off someone else, I have a bad race.

So run MY race.. not someone elses.

Just jogged a mile right after the race, which always surprises me every time how much it helps recovery.


Bad decisions.. going out with a 5:24 when I should of hit a 5:38. I just couldn't bounce back from that effort.