Before race stuff: Had to be up early and get over to catch the bus at 6:30 to head up to Cedar in time for the JV girls. I was feelin super confident after our amazing team night. I was ready to rock and roll and nothing was going to stop me.. not even my foot. (no pain in foot by the way) ... warmed up around 2 miles and still no pain, feeling awesome but then the race was postponed due to weather. Really just tried to stay in the racing mindset and I did pretty good for the most part.
RACE: No time for nerves to set in. Got right up to the line and started within a few minutes. The gun with off and I took off pretty quick to stay up with Marsing (Carbon) as well as the other guys up front. If you know me at all I hate to be in the pack, I love the open view of what is in front of me. So I lead for a little bit till my boy Byron was right next to me and it felt soo great. Not gonna lie we looked good(; ANYWAYS.. I knew that we were unstoppable together, we always work so hard together in workouts and today we were going to work hard to the finish. We lead side by side for a little bit with Marsing close behind and McPhie (DHells) right there as well. On the "down hill" part of the race I heard Byron yell and grab his hammy and I thought "Oh crap, he just pulled something" (glad he didn't though!) Now it was just me with Marsing and McPhie as well as some other guys. I really pushed to maintain good placing. Before long my arms were pretty sore and I was breathing pretty hard and McPhie and Marsing just kept getting a little farther ahead and I was just trying to keep a strong push to the finish. Up the last "up hill" part I was really hurting and I knew that I had slowed down but I still had some ground to make up and I thought if I gave it a good push down the other side into the chute to the finish maybe I could catch someone. It just didn't happen and tried to throw a kick in there and I just didn't have the energy. I just need to get in the shape I was in before my tendonitis. There isn't a doubt in my mind that myself as well as Byron can't beat those guys it just didn't happen today. We had good grouping with Myself, Byron and Kyler. Everyone on the team did amazing and we will get better as time goes on.
Goals for next week leading to the Grass Relays: Stay healthy, drink lots of water, get into better shape and keep a confident and positive attitude. | 