This morning was the All County Championship track and field meet! So I arrived at the meet just going out and running hard. I was running the 800 finals and my 4x400 meter team made the finals from previous meets so we got to go straight to finals:) when I heard the intercom call final call for the 400 I warmed up with this Jared kid I knew from previous meets who ran the 400. We did two laps warm up then stretched and cheered on the kids 400 then he had to line up so I did my J's alone. So I did two laps of J's then I went and got my water bottle, took my pants and shirt off so I was in my uniform then got my spikes and went over to the start because they had called final call for the 800. I was in Heat 4 seed 3 so I had a while till I actually raced. I did about 6 strides across the field then stretched and did drills while I was talking to Linsey and Larita. They lined us up and it was a tight squeeze but we all fit. There was like 30 of us on the first line! The gun goes off and I elbowed my way to the front of the pack and took the lead immediately. I thought that the whole pack was right behind me but it was actually a group of 4 guys including me. we were strung out by like 2 meters apart from all of us. Going through the 200 I was feeling great so I sped up to gap people but the second place went with me. Me and the kid right behind me gapped the rest of the pack by like 25 meters at the 300 meter mark so I knew it was going to be down to me and this kid for the win. We went through the 400 in 74 which is incredibly slow! So immediately I pick up the pace and this kid goes with me! So at the 600 mark this kid pulls away from me. I try to go with him but we stay about 10 meters apart for the rest of the race. My final time was 2:21.24 so we negative split by 8 seconds ending with a 66 last lap! Which is good but it shows that I didn't use all of my energy in that race! Then I jogged around until my heat for the 4x400. I got about a mile and a half in this time. Then I went and gathered up my 4x400 team which was Rich, Me, Austin, and Vuong. Rich wasn't there and no other boys who looked our age was there either! So we got Gabrielle to run in our team. Vuong started us out and immediately got us a good 50 meter lead. Then he passed me the baton and I got a 100 meter lead on the second place person! Then I passed it on to Gabrielle and she kept the lead!!!! Then when Austin got the baton he got another 50 meter lead on the second place team! So we had a 150 meter lead on the second place team! I did a 61 second 400 for my leg. So I went undefeated today! Then waiting for the awards I cooled down with Vuong. we then heard we were DQ'd in the 4x400 for having a girl! If anything they should have given us another award! THAT IS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!So after Tolbert Yelling at the Kearns coach for whining that we had a girl and we still killed them by 150 meters I went home with a champions T-Shirt from the 800 and a medal and the winning baton:) Overall a really good racing day! I am happy I did Tiny Tots Track! Tiny Tots Cross Country is coming up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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