The race this morning was very competitive. There were a bunch of the top guys from the blog, as well as some fast local guys, and some guys that go to BYU and UVU. The race started off fast. I was up at the front with Sean Sundwall, Nick McCombs, Reagan Frey (BYU), Josh Rohatinsky (dropped out at 3 miles), and some guy that runs for SUU (didn't cross the finish line). A little over a mile into the race, the other guys dropped me and I fell 30-50 meters behind. I decided that I would be patient and wait until about 2.5 miles before I would make a move to try and catch them all. So, at 2.5 I made a move and slowly started catching the rest of the guys. My problem is that I let them get too much of a gap on me before I started trying to catch them. Anyhow, I slowly gained ground on them, and I caught Reagan a little ways past the 3 mile mark. He stayed with me until we made it to about 3.5 and then dropped off. I then tried to catch Nick, and I made it to within about a second of him with 400 left. At this point I had almost nothing left, and he gained just slightly on me over the last 400. So, I finished in third at 20:02.1 while Nick finished in 19:59.8 and Sean finished in 19:55. The SUU guy beat us all, but he never crossed the finish line because he was banditing the race. Overall it was a good race, and I am pretty happy with how I did, but I wish that I could have gotten those 2 extra seconds to finish under 20:00.
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