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States

November 12, 2011 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Final cross country meet. I still don't like racing very much, and this race represented everything I detest about cross country as a school sport. I don't like running in crowds, with pressure, and with everyone's mom and dad yelling and cheering for them. Despite all that, I think I did ok. I thought I ran a 22:57, so I was pretty bummed, but it turns out I ran a 21:57, so I don't feel quite so bad about myself.

The first mile was pretty good, but I slowed down a lot in the second, and then sped back up in the third. I believe the individual mile times were something like 6:26, 7:30, 7:16. Even though I tapered a lot this week, last week's mileage still caught up with me. This was 31 seconds or something off of my time for Bullis, which is pretty good considering the difficulty of this course.

I'm sad that cross country is ending, but I can't say I'll miss races very much.

Update: According to what Samet said about the course being long, my time was actually 21:16. Also, if the course was long for States, then it was also long for Championships.