regionals today was cool. i prepared really well yesterday by recovering and making my legs feel really good, and also getting really good sleep and not eating anything that would upset my stomach. also did hip stuff before the warmup, and during warmup and continuous i felt physically amazing, but mentally nervous. got out behind a lot of people, but slowly found kraemer and josh and ran right with them through the first mile loop of the soccer fields. when i saw the time (4:46), i just told myself to ignore it. usually i would let such an insane first mile rattle me and slow me down, but i just convinced myself it was wrong and powered on, because i saw josh and kraemer slowing down so i took over for them. from there my position didn't change at all, through the second mile loop or the forest. my two mile was 10:00, a pr. i felt like i did in the mile repeats, super strong and controlled. my legs started getting super heavy in the forest, and i didn't have much of a kick. kraemer passed me and that pushed me to make sure nobody finished between us. we were both closing on ben rosa, and luke wiley not far ahead. time was 15:14, a 35 second pr. all of us had huge times, of course the course short rumors were there including the hp coach measuring it at 2.92. i really don't care to be honest, this gives me so much confidence and no matter what i know i can bust a time like this or faster next week. we got 2nd, losing to warren by i think 12 points, still work to be done. luke wiley shaved 19 seconds from last week and griffin pasha shaved 40 seconds (15:20-->14:46). not gonna worry about it, because any of us are just as capable of breaking out like that. our top 5 average was 15:29, compared to zurich's average here last week of 15:27 i think we're in a good place. gonna do everything right this next week, including grinding hw super hard this weekend so i don't have to deal with it as much during the week. having the boys coming to support was super cool, thanks everyone. hit up ihop after which was fun. we're just getting started, they haven't seen anything yet. good day.