I ran around for a long time (maybe not long, but around a mile and a half or more) looking for the bus where I left my stuff. Then we watched the other races (the girls beat Mountain Crest! First time MC lost to our girls since 2006 I think. It was also a tie-breaker, so it was soo close) I found my stuff, and we did a good warm up of around a mile and a half with the team. The course is fast, but they changed it from last year and made it longer (an extra .1 is what I heard. Jerrell ran 14:58 here last year on the full 5K, a very fast course, and I ran 15:05.)
I tried to get a good start (what I'm trying to work on), but mostly sprinted in between 50m to 250m. I'll need to work on that. After that, I kinda got into a bad mental state for a long while. I kept thinking don't let anyone pass me, just stay ahead. This actually made me go slower because I was always looking back. I just ran alone the whole race. I tried to push it, but I kept letting up, and when I looked back I would slow down. I should've gone faster, but didn't. Again, need to work on that when running alone. When I got into the right mental state and it felt like tempo mentally, I saw I gained a whole lot of ground on the people behind me. When I looked back and tried to get a lot of ground in between the next person and me, I didn't so much. I just ran the end well, and just finished strong.
The guys won also, which was great because MC won Bob Firman Division I Varsity race, and we beat them here. Alex and Stockton came up pretty big going 14 and 15. Kyler was 5th, Tyson was 8th about, and Ethan and Glen both had good races too. We won by 4 or 6 points, so that was great. .5 mile cool down, then 4 miles when I got home, with the last two 6:00, and 5:52.
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