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Flint Hill Meet

September 17, 2013 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Woke up at 4:45 am to go see an open heart surgery with my AP Bio class. It was really fascinating, but probably not the best for running in the meet afterwards. The JV race was first, so by the time we arrived, we weren't able to get the full warm-up routine in.

Started off with the first mile controlled, and then really tried to work the second and third miles, particularly passing people in the woods and along the back straight away when people were off guard. Although I didn't physically feel that great, I thought I ran the race well and strategically. I'm ambivalent about the time, although its the beginning of the season and it was a tad faster than Lakeforest, I'm still a full 45 seconds off my PR, and thats on a flat course in good weather conditions.

Also was skimming through the "News from Hopper Athletics" that Kathy Hudson usually sends out on First Class (somehow XC and track are always at the bottom of the announcements), and found out that JV got 2nd place. The only other time I've actually scored in a meet was for the JV Upperclassmen Boys at Oatlands last year where we got 52nd out of 53 teams, so even though its just a small meet at Flint Hill, I can't say I wasn't happy. Also props to Sam Slater who had a minute PR and won our race, and to all the freshman who had their first race and ran good!