Easy shake-out around from my aunt's house,
legs feeling pretty stiff and sore.
Weird race. There were almost 30 runners in it, so the pack was
enormous and there was lots of jostling as we started. First lap went
out pretty slow as I'd hoped (around 92), then the next lap the pack
sped up a whole lot (around 83) and stayed quick for the next few. I
wasn't so happy about that since I was feeling a bit tired. A fast
Nevada girl took her own lead, but I stayed in the next pack after a
NM girl, a Nevada girl and another NM girl. I must've zoned out for a
bit then because next thing I knew, one NM and Nevada girl had gapped
me and I was just with the other NM girl I'd stuck onto. We played
'surge' games for the next few laps until I started to stretch out
with 4 laps to go. I lost her and was trying to go get the next
girls, but I couldn't really figure out which ones they were by then,
since we were lapping lots of people. So, finally, I got my eyes on
one with a lap or so to go, but I only gained about 30 meters on her
and she still had about 20 on me as we came into the finish. I'm
pretty happy with how the race went (mostly that I didn't die like I
did in the 3000m in Indoor), just a little frustrated that I lost the
pack just ahead of me. Still, it was a great way to finish the
conference championships and I'm excited for Regionals in two weeks. (DS 401.7) (S spike 68.5)
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