Competed in the Monmouth Mile on Thursday and ran a recent best of 7:16.78 four seconds better than last year’s time in the same event. I figured that converts to better than 6:50 for a 1500m race. It was much more relaxed for three and a half laps than in recent races, only hard pressed for the last 200m. A few variables with this race effort were three days off previous and an Advil two hours before, both in reaction to a tweaked hamstring on Monday. I may have discovered a new pre-race routine. Luckily, the hamstring had cleared up and had no effect on my race.