Not my best race. Not at all. I was taking an anitbiotic for a while because on Friday I got a root canal on one of my teeth. On the Monday before the race I was feeling sick, mostly due to the medication I was on. This isn't the reason I didn't do my best in the race, but it may have affected it.
On the bus ride to the meet, Dylan Compton was throwing up, and Tyson was throwing up at the race. Great, two of our top five runners are sick the day of state. Before the race I talked and saw a lot of people, and a bunch of bloggers. I put in a few miles during our warm-up and accelerations. This morning I felt amazing, but when the race came, I didn't feel so great.
RACE: The race started, and I got a pretty good start, but I felt bad during it. We had right next to the outside, so it was a great position. I got right up with the people I needed to be running with, Jake, Jerrell, Jayden, Chuk, Rory, and a few other people were probably in this group. I just hung on the Jake and Jerrell, but I was feeling absolutely terrible. I'm usually not doing to bad at the start of the race, but I felt terrible. We went up the hill, and right here I was fourth. Jake and Jerrell then both took seperate wrong turns, one after another. I was far enough behind them that I learned from their mistakes, but I didn't speed up and profit like I should have. After the first mile (no idea what the splits were) I decided to lead because the pace had slowed down and I wanted a fast time. After a little while, I let Rory and Jake/Jerrell(they were side by side the whole race, or almost the whole race) lead. The race just kept going from here. Chuk later decided to lead it, and I just had to keep following them and not give up. I wasn't feeling good at all. After we went around the pond the second time, I made my move to catch Jerrell/Jake. I passed Chuk, buy wasn't able to even get close to Jake or Jerrell because they started their kick also. This mentally was hard and I just gave up on catching them from there. I shouldn't make these stupid mistakes! I looked back and saw Rory was almost on me, so I pushed it in, but didn't have a sprint at the end. During the finish i thought I saw the clock say:15:40, 41, 42, but it was actually 15:10, 11, 12... so that was a bit demoralizing.
I'm alright with this race, I may not have ran my best race, but I didn't put in a DNF. Our team didn't do so hot either. Since Dylan and Tyson were sick, their races weren't their favorite. I talked to a lot of people afterward, and found out a lot of people didn't have their races today. At restaurant and I was feeling terrible during it and the ride home. My stomache was feeling bad. (Good thing it happened after the race and not during, right?) Atleast I still have footlocker regionals to look forward to. | 