Our First 5K

Hello again and welcome back. I again have a lot to cover in a limited amount of time so I will try to touch on the finer points of the last two weeks. First of all I promised Tom that I would describe the dead deer so this will be explained once and then never mentioned again because it gives me the creepers just thinking about it. About a week and a half ago during our first Bender 40 of the year we came across a dead deer in the ditch on the side of Ladue Road. I smelled the deer from a good 200 yards away which was possibly one of the worst smells imaginable. Anyway, the head of the deer was stuffed up the sewer drain hole and the deer was laying on its back with all four of its legs hanging straight up in the air. There was a large hole in the stomach of the deer with a swarm of flies were going inside and out of the animal. It was quite disturbing.

On happier news Monday was our last tempo workout of the year with our workouts from now on switching to 5k pace. During a 6:20 morning practice Austin, Nick, Matt and I finished a 5 continuous mile workout in 29:30. It was pretty awesome as Coach Tom led us to a record pace for all of us. Hopefully that workout will pay dividends in the future as we were able to stay together for the entire workout. Nice work boys!

Thursday was our first 5k race of the year at our home course, Parkway Central. Without Austin, Nick led the back finishing first for De Smet with a 17:25. Collin Sullivan ran an impressive 17:31 beating Matt O'Connor and myself. I came in at 17:39 right in front of MC. Our spread between our number 1 through our number 5 runners was extremely small and hopefully that will help us as we move forward. The pack of Nick, Matt, and I were in good position for two miles, but then we ran out of gas during the final mile as I dropped from 15th to 30th. Don't worry we'll figure it out next week at RimRock. Hopefully Jacob and Potter (whom we saw at the football game) we be at the RimRock race next Saturday and I am very excited to see them again.  That's all for this week, thanks for reading and I'll make sure to try my best to update this weekly from now until the end of the season!