4:05 isn't completely awful like his results earlier this year at least. Considering his lifetime best is 5 seconds away, I'd chalk it up to a success as long as he continues to improve.
Like that's an average college kid on a bad day kind of time vs his other results which were like high school times.
4:04.xx is clearly a step in the right direction, even though it seems to have been Spencer's Super Bowl race for the year.
Not sure what the thinking is. He just hit his peak mileage, so he was not tapering or sharpening for this race. If he actually wanted to run fast, he'd taper and run a paced time trial 2 weeks from now.
But instead he is taking a down week for no reason, and then refocusing on "ThE sUb 14 pRoJeCt" from Aug-November. But he wants another crack at the mile in December? WTF?
This schedule is tailor-made to abandon what was working, ignore speed again, and artificially cramp his indoor season.
Spencer, a full-time runner who doesn't have a cross country season, seems unable to schedule a basic plan to accomplish literally just 2 goals inside a calendar year. It's nuts.