Everyone has trouble finding the pace early on, and Wetmore yells across the track at Ponce as he starts pulling away on the second 300. "Now you're on race pace, cruising, cruising, cruising, OSCAR!!!" He comes through two seconds fast. He can be forgiven since he was keying off of Goucher, who himself was three seconds fast. "That's 4:24 pace," Wetmore informs Goucher. "I hope you can run that"
