So The race was at 19:40 at night. earlier at 18:00 I went to training. did a tempo run then went to the meet. ran the 1500m . (I'm a 400m/800m type) but ran that race in 4:15 effort. felt hard after the tempo run. then 20min later it was this 800m. it's not his first time running at this meet. he also did it last year early on before he had to cut his season short once more. He ran quite easy for the second lap. but judging by our conversation afterwards and how dead he looked he said he was considering settling for second but if you've ever watched the guy race it's quite hard for him to do that. and he pushed harder after he saw me look back twice. I'm not in 1:53 .xx shape yet. but I'd say it was 95 percent the same effort. but slightly harder as it was on a grass track. I ran the 1:53 last year before the winter training. and I haven't been in peak condition yet. my SB has only been 1:57 in the only meet I've done this year. but I'd say I'm in 1:55 low shape now. so yeah it was hard considering the previous two workouts/races I did that day