I was really excited for the meet all day, I realized I would run faster if I just calmed down in the hours leading up to the race. And Coach Murphy is always saying we should keep off our feet, so I tried my best to rest a lot after school. I was feeling good leading up to the race, and when we started I took off. I was in the top 20ish at the very beginning and I mostly got passed after that, it was hard to pass people because there were so many runners just lined up blocking the path, for some reason I always feel like I'm at the back of a pack in races. Like today if I had run 20 seconds faster I could have gotten 30 places better. I really need to work on that. For the last 2 miles I was feeling tired and sort of beat from taking the first mile so hard, and when I wanted to pass people there just weren't any openings. I should have kicked it a lot harder at the end of the race but I didn't, I need to work on that. When I was crossing the finish line somebody just picked up the rope and I ran straight into it and they were like "HEY, WATCH OUT!" and I was just sort of confused because there was no where else to cross the finish line... but anyways a few other guys ran into me because I couldn't move forward and then we just walked into a lane and waited to get through. But I met a friend from when I lived in Davis 7 years ago, I only beat 1 bingham guy which is not ok. I need to work harder in cross country every day. I feel like I did not do as well as I could have, and I'm not sure if this counts as a personal record. But I want to run in 16:30s at preregion. Thats my goal. Braden did really good today, with a 16:00 and Kramer did awesome with a 14:48 and won the race, setting the course record! I need to close the gap with Braden, and we both need to get closer to Kramer as well. We had some good personal records from some of our other guys too, we need to get a lot faster with our 2-5 guys, mostly 3-5 if we want to go to nationals. It will take a lot of work, it will be very tough, but I'm not giving up hope! |