AM: Arctic Circle as usual. Didn't run yesterday.. trying to catch up on sleep and get the sickness out of me. Ended up okay.
PM: Race!! Warmed up more than we usually do cause Coach kinda got on our case about it. I was kinda freaking out before the race, which is actually unusual for this season. But the coaches and my mom kinda calmed me down. Then we started the race.. and Stoner and I biffed it cause Mia cut Stoner off and we both tumbled. But we were okay and restarted and all was fine. I was nervous because I don't really like races that we have to start out fast. But it was okay.. except girls were throwing elbows and cutting us off all over the place. I felt like we were going a good pace though. Then all of a sudden six red uniforms passed me and I realized I was running behind the entire team of American Fork. My mom told me to pass them, and I was feeling okay so I passed three of them.. then Coach later told me that by the next time he saw me he wanted me to be ahead of the other three. But by the next time I saw him, it was like 400 meters away from the finish and I still hadn't passed them. So I started kicking and realized I had more left than I thought. So I ended up passing 5 girls at the end. But at the last 50 meters or so, all these people started cheering for this girl to pass me.. I could hear her coming and I started freaking out. Somewhere inside of me, I found the energy to push enough to beat the girl by .3 of a second.. anyway. Turned out to be a pretty positive race, which was nice. Happy with it. | 