9am - Our team got to the golf course at like 7:30 and unlike yesterday, the wind was blowing super hard. Which made it really cold. The 2 days I'd been in Arizona it was cold and rainy. We watched Rylee and Christina race then I went and laid in the tent for a while. At 9 we went and warmed up for 1.5 miles so I kept jogging till I had to go line up for our race and got in 2 miles. I just kept jogging in the starting area which really keeps me not nervous and makes me race better.
The race started at 9 and the sun came our right at our race. This race was pretty official so the gun really dissapointed me. It wasn't much more than a pop. I got out good and looked for pine view guys to move up to. I passed Kyler and moved up to Colton and stayed with him most of the race. We came through the first mile at 5:07. The course was really muddy and torn up. I was shooting for at least a 16:30 and I'm sure the mud slowed the times down a lot. Mike ran faster last year than the winner this year. There was this gulley thing that ran through the middle of the golf course which was full of water like 3 inches deep. We crossed that 4 times. Me and Colton came through 2 miles at 10:40 so the pace really fell of and that wasn't good. I started to speed up here and I pulled away from colton here and it hurt significantly. My hammy were hurting. I just told myself that its ok and to keep running. 1000 meters left I gave it another push and began to pass people. Only problem was I started my move to soon. With 400 meters left my legs were starting to shut down and my legs were burning. I yelled to myself to go but people were passing me. It was the first time i didn't have anything left. I was able to dig the final 50m and passed a guy and barely broke 17 minutes. This race was way legit and I am happy with how I raced. After we got together and did a short cooldown. The championship race was cool and Connor Mantz did way good.
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