What a Race!!

 Warning: absolute, total picture overload coming

 So if you thought there were a lot of laps in a 3000m, just wait till you see a 5000m!

 Did you find Drew?

 Pictures from the front are red and white uniform with WSU.

 From the back it is gray and red.

 Drew ran the first mile mixed in with the last four in his heat of 32 men.

 I knew he was running with lots of guys with amazingly fast times and he had not run this race on the track since his junior year of high school, so I was not too surprised to see him there.

 There were 5 heats of 32 guys though out the day.

 Drew was in the second fastest.

 Many of the guys in the first heat were not college athletes, but professionals.

 At the beginning of mile two Drew made a sudden move that moved him up to 16th place.

 He sat there for the next mile comfortably.

 I say comfortably, but he does have an assortment of spike holes in his legs from this race!

 So I started to wonder if there was more of a plan to his positioning.

 I also noticed his coach standing on the corner where Drew made his move.

 So was there more to his racing tonight then met the eye.

 Then with about a mile to go--at the same place.....

 ....another surge to about 12th.

 OK---I will admit that I was getting pretty loud at this point.

 And with 800m to go he surged again.

 See the pain as he surges to 7th!

 He closed with a 61 second final lap!

Drew ran over a minute PR!

He broke 14 minutes!

He ran 13:59!

That puts him in with the big boys legitimately!

Congratulations Son, we are so proud of you.

You can watch it here if you are so inclined!