AM- 4 miles easy Starbucks. It was so weird. We saw a deer run across the street by Artic circle and run into the revine. Then we heard a sound to our right and it was another deer stuck between the barrier to the freeway and the fence that fences off the freeway. It was hardcore freaking out. Nick stopped to stretch while the rest of us ran on, we heard a big THUMP sound and it turns out a car hit it on the freeway. Demolished the front of the car and very likely killed the deer. HAPPY EARTH DAY.
PM- RACE- warmed up a few minutes, found out my impressive 4:52 at DH earned me a spot in the second slowest heat of the 4 heats. I decided I was going to draft off a guy the first lap (the wind was raging) and then just take it from there and maybe get like in the low 40s. Race started so slow, and I'm impatient, so I took the lead after like 150 meters and tried to gap it so nobody could draft off me (again the wind was killer). Came by 400 at 1:10 and was like oh crap it's slow, but let's see what we can do. It was all by myself for the whole rest of the race and i came across at 4:41.96 so an okay time for being by myself in the wind. To put it in perspective, I took 11th overall (tied 11th Jensen lambert to the hundredths), and would have won the second fastest heat. It's kind of fun to just go out and run. Shouldn't have put myself in the situation to be in a slower heat.
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