am: normal 3
race: well we'll start out saying that i'm an idiot. i thought i'd be cool to wear my freshman spikes to this race so thats what i brought, but during the warm up stuff i realized that they were really worn down on the bottom so every turn or hard surface i ran on i would be on ice.
now that we cleared that up :) warmed up 3.5 miles feeling pretty good. Race started and i got out into top five and kind of fell off the course (this is where i found out about my shoes!) after first mile (5:05) i was in third. by now i should have been moving it up into the lead but i just couldn't get my legs moving so i just kept it where i was. after second lap they had a good 50 meters on me then with .5 to go i finally started going again and caught the second guy then slowly gained ground on the leader...then we hit a corner and i lost ALL my momemtum. but after getting it back i caught him with 300meters to go (on track) and i was able to sprint it in hard beating him by 8 seconds.
i was sad about this race cause i missed the course record by 4 seconds and i'll never get to try for it again, plus it was just cause it was a terrible race. But i'm not crying over it cause it wasn't a big meet and our team did much better as a whole. JV killed everyone and varsity got 2nd but pretty dang close to DH. I'm excited to see how we do with the next couple meets! | 