My Real Season Opener...

So I got to the track this morning and was pumped to run a good race, I felt so good and was pumped to tear it up.

It was super hot out but got windy as I warmed up. I lucked out this time and snuck into the fast heat with my 1:55 seed time Lane 1. Trent wasnt feeling it, so he decided to pace through 600m.

The race started and I was in dead last going through 200 in about 28, felt good but it was really windy and I tucked in behind Madison. The 400m split was around 56 and at that point i was feeling great. 600m 1:25 and at this point im getting stoked because I new I was on Pb pace. I had to go really wide like outside of lane 3 wide to pass Jeff Homer, Madison, Abdel, and Nish... I thought I was flying and running a 29sec last 200 but when i saw my time after I realized that i had probably ran at least 5m extra that last 200m.

Event 508 Men 800 Meter Run Senior
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Name Year Team Finals Points
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Finals
1 Saizew, Mike 87 Caltaf Athle 1:52.91
2 McCormick, Iain 85 Queen City Striders 1:53.22
3 Russell, Ryan 88 Calgary Inte 1:53.29
4 Simair, Chris 85 Queen City Striders 1:53.87
5 Wasylyshyn, Adam 89 U OF C Athle 1:56.47
6 Ratzlaff, Scott 90 Caltaf Athle 1:56.53
7 Carroll, Rory 88 Edmonton Thunder 1:57.17
8 Nishiyama, Michael 89 Leduc Track 1:57.21
9 Theriault, Madison 88 Caltaf Athle 1:57.70
10 Dib, Abdelkader 89 Caltaf Athle 1:57.72
11 Boldt, Alyosha 89 Queen City Striders 1:58.58
12 Homer, Jeffrey 90 U OF C Athle 1:58.91
13 Dorosz, Sam 90 Lethbridge T 1:59.10
14 Delange, Owen 88 Calgary Spartans 1:59.12
15 Furlong, Mark 83 Calgary Spartans 2:00.42
16 Elford, Adam 88 U OF C Athle 2:01.83
17 Brown, Travis 90 Calgary Spartans 2:03.75
18 Wittig, Luc 91 U OF C Athle 2:11.51
19 Herzog, Walter 55 Unattached Alberta 2:16.13
20 Marks, Laurence 72 Unattached 2:16.49
21 Davies, Roger 35 Calgary Roadrunners 3:00.77
22 Wollman, David 49 Calgary Roadrunners 3:27.12
-- Ratzlaff, Trent 86 Caltaf Athle DNF




I'm happy with this race Its a PR, but I really wanted to get down in the 1:55 range. I guess it will have to wait till west coast. The last 200m felt like a 29 effort but it turned into a 31 so I know that ill be under 1:55 on the coast if im smart and run the entire race in the inside lane I also felt really good through 600m so I think I can get away with shaving a second or 2 off my first 600m.