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Oatlands

September 21, 2013 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Ran in the first race of the day, the JV Upperclassmen Boys, with Sammy and David. We were too few to be able to score, which while at first disappointing, allowed me to focus differently on the race since I cared more about my time and how I raced over passing people. After only running the first mile and a half (ish) of the course, we had to go and do drills for the race.

First mile, was fine, mostly down hill, tried to find a balance between going out hard, but not too hard. People were having distracting side-conversations with each other mid-race which was frustrating. I tried to work the second mile, really using each down hill. The long winding hill in the woods was probably my weakest point, so I made sure to cheer by there for the other races of the day.

Overall was happy with the race and the time in comparison to last year's time (~45 seconds faster). In general though, I'm still a minute and a half off my PR. I ran a better time at states as a freshman (22:44) than today's time. I guess I was just hoping that by my senior year I would be on a different level when it came to racing.