2500NL event no x

So i played in the 2500 NL , with expectations of doing well, and feeling
like I was playing well. And frankly I thought I played really good,
not pushing all in or risking my chips, and without really ever backing
down either. I unfortunately got my good
cards in the first hour, where i picked up a few hundred chips, where
they would have been priceless at the end. From my starting stack
I still managed to work it up to near 15k (avg 18k) after the dinner
break, with 250 ppl left of 1000. Then I picked up the worst run
of cards, after folding an AQ preflop to a re-raise. I couldnt event get
a suited connector to try and steal the blinds :( Finally with 160ppl
left I was forced with a8 to go all in, and ak called me, and that was
it ! 1 race , and cya later. I guess i can be happy with the way I
played, but busting out after everyone else around me was getting
lucky and doing crazy things just hurt. Lee Watkinson, said to
Michael Binger, whats a PHD physicist doing wasting their time
playing poker ? The only positive about all this, is Im starting to
think of some of the movie ideas I would want to do.