so i had this meet at UNK today, and my time was 17:33, which is about average for me. ( the race is 2.6 miles) But what i don't understand is, at practice i run a 12:55 to 13:10 for two miles. But then when I run at a meet, my average two mile time is about 14:20. And at meets, my second mile is usually way slower than my first mile then my last about half mile is average for me. (3:30) Normally at practice, I run about 6:20 for the first mile and about 6:35 for the second mile but at the meets I run the first mile in about 6:20 and the second in about 7:30. (the last .6 is never a problem for me)

If this makes any difference at all, at practice I never run 2.6 miles at a time, just two. But really, shouldn't I be breaking 17:00? (i'm a girl, btw)