Morning we went on a short 3 mile easy run to refresh our legs, and I was feeling confident. Got to the race and relaxed for 3 hours then went on our warm up, got prepared and went to the starting line. Gun went off and I got pretty good position. Through the race i slowly moved up into the top 5. First mile was 5 flat and I was still feeling solid. Then Ben and cross surged up and I didn't go with them. I don't know why, I just had the wrong mindset. Slowly but surely they just got further and further ahead. But I still didn't give up cause I had a lot of guys on my heels, so I made my push where I was supposed to and got to where I could see cross again (he had fallen off Ben dramatically) and he was struggling. I made an effort to catch him and started to but he was so far ahead I just couldn't get him. I still finished hard 9 second behind cross and Ben got sub 15 (only 2 one to do it in all of utahs history) I'm happy about my race and all that I've accomplished this year. This is the first season that I've gone through a whole season without injury which has made a huge difference in my success. I think the main problem with this race was that I kind of went in knowing I'd get third. Both these guys got 1 and 2 last year and I was afraid to go with them. And looking at my time, i was sad mostly because everyone else got smoking faster, however I got our school record which is 14 years old by 7 seconds! I still have a lot of season left so now I just look forward! Goal: make it to nationals! | 