Chris Estwanik won’t run in the KPMG Bermuda Invitational Mile next month.The American doesn’t think he is in good enough shape to win the event and so has opted out of the first event of International Race Weekend.And while not completely ruling out the possibility of competing in the event in the future, Estwanik said that he didn’t want to take up a space just for the sake of it. For that reason he won’t be racing in the local mile either.“The organisers were kind enough to extend invites to both myself and Ashley, but just based on the relative level of specific training that you have to do for the mile, as opposed to gettting out the door and going for a five, six, ten mile runs, it’s just different,” he said.“You’ve got to spend more time at the track and do more workout specific training, and with the job that I do, this is the busiest time of the year for us, and I’m not getting the time to do that.“I had great experiences doing it when I was ready for it, and what I’ve always told myself is that I don’t want to go out and just take up a spot when I’m not myself.“I haven’t completely closed the chapter on that side of my interest and I’d love to do it in subsequent years, it’s just that every athlete knows their body so well, and I know what I’m capable of at this point in time, and I can’t go out and fake it.”In the end it all comes down to a sense of personal pride for Estwanik and not wanting to sully the memory of previous years when he came within an ace of winning the event.“Am I confident I could be five, six, ten seconds adrift of the guys? Yes, I could do that. But the first years I did it I stuck my neck in there and was within a second of winning on both years, and that’s the kind of thing I loved about that competition.“So I want to keep that wonderful experience at the top of my mind.”Instead Estwanik will focus all his energies on running in either the 10K or the half marathon, although at the moment he is leaning towards running in the 10K as he continues his preparation for May 24.“I haven’t made up my mind yet, but I think the 10K will probably be the one that I chose, because that’s kind of a good middle ground,” he said.“ I’m kind of peaking up to May 24 at this point, I’m half way through my training where I need to be, so that is a nice sort of sweet spot for me.“I’m probably not ready (for the half), I could finish it obviously but not putting forward the effort I would want to in trying to be competitive.”