First sorry-this was on Friday, September 16. I put it on the wrong day.
When we got there we had about 2 hours til the boys varsity race started, and that was a pretty long time. Tyler and Dylan showed me the course and gave me some really good pointers for it. It was pretty good weather for the first 4 races, but at the boys JV it started raining pretty bad. At ours it was worse.
I was told that they had a bunch of false starts, which I was a little scared of, but I think they only had one with the girls Varsity race. We started running and I had a pretty good spot at the first part, then I kept sprinting to what I thought was the distance we sprinted for the distance that we sprinted on for the practice on Wednesday. I went around a bunch of people to do that. I went and settled into my pace, and I was in first.
We went up a small hill and the JV boys we finishing their race at this part, and so we had to get around them. After the small hill there was a small downhill and a few guys passed me. Then we went up another hill and I got up to the front. When we went downhill after that and that's when people passed me and I didn't pass them after that. I ran with them and we got to a muddy trail and it was really hard to run on. We kept going on it and the top 5 guys all slipped and fell on a turn. I learned from their mistake and I slowed it down on that turn and went right behind them up the hill that wasn't big or small. Everyone was slipping there. People grabbed on to the other people, branches, the ground. It was a really steep hill. I think around 10 to 20 people passed me going up that hill, including a team-mate, Dylan. After it I started catching up to the guys ahead of me. I had lost a lot of time. I was a small ways behind them, but now that it was level ground I wasn't slipping.
I ran around the football field and an area like that. A lot of people were cheering on the kid behind me around the football field. His name was Alex and I heard it a ton. After the football field we were going down a hill that was gravel. Someone and I passed a guy going down the hill. We crossed a road, and there was a guy who I'd seen a few times cheering on Sky View who said I was 11th. I wanted a top ten position. I passed two or three guys and went around the totem pool sculpture that Tyler and Dylan told me about. I might have passed a guy after that. I kept going after I crossed the road again.
There was one guy right behind me. Around the last 400M we both started pushing it. He got ahead of me by a second or 2 or 3. At the last 100M stretch I thought if I pass him that could be the determining of a whole place for my team. I got on my toes and at the last 10 or 15 meters I passed him (his name was Alex, the one who had people yelling his name the whole time telling him to catch me). I was so happy. According to runner card I beat him by .4 seconds. Tyler took 20th and Dylan took 21st, then Steven, Nick, Tyson, and Matt. Our team did pretty great. We thought we took 4th, but runner card says we tied for 3rd. Nice job SVXC | 