Be the team that goes hard on the last two

Eh. Warmed up a little over 2 miles. We had chilled all day and played dying light, usual pre race routine. Boston ran a huge PR in the mile with 4:39, shoutout to him. Did strides and got to the line. The gun went off and I wanted to make sure not to get boxed in and not kill myself sprinting either. I got boxed the crap in, and the whole field was super slow. The leader at the first lap was alek parsons, and even he came through at 1:11. Super slow first lap. I was in about 3rd to last out of 34 runners at 1200m. Hit the mile in 4:55, just like last year. Started to move up here. Caught Bryson and Josh, then pushed up to Jaiden who wasn't too far behind Alek. Alek was definitely having an off day. Started moving more and passing people, then alek and jaiden moved and i tried to go with them. the bell lap hit and even alek wasnt in first, he was in like 6th, which was crazy. Hit the last 100m and kicked hard but not crazy like i should have. josh caught me at the line. finished in 9:43.1 which is a 1 second PR, and nowhere near what I wanted. all things considered though, it wasn't too  bad. Even alek didn't go under 9:30, he was 9:32, so it was cool to be within like 10 seconds of this crazy fast dude. super slow race for everybody. the negatives are that i didn't get the time or place i wanted. the positives are that no one did either, i negative split 4:55, 4:47, and it's still a PR even if it's one second. It really made me realize that there's still a lot of work to do, and I will get my goals. ALso there was a lot of dirt in the air on the track so idk if that had anything to do with it. not what i wanted, but all things considered, it wasn't terrible.