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First winter track “race”

December 7, 2019 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
the bus today was at 1:45!! I got to school and waited for the rest of the people coming. So far it was me, Abby, and Sophie. Then Benji came, then Annie and Dora, then Ella without her lucky socks which she says are a performance enhancing drug. After changing all of our spikes on the bus we got to PG sportsplex. By this time we were watching the start of the NXN girls race which was thrilling. We walking across the parking lot watching, we entered the building then we stood on the bleachers to watch the last few minutes. It was insane. Kaytlyn Tuohy won. Anyway then we sat and talked with Anthony for a while before the 3200 started. Then we watched Dora and Sophie run. And by then we had to start warming up. Ella, Annie and I were running the 800. We ran outside for 6 minutes then did the sprinter warmups and got to the check in area. We waited there for probably 30-45 minutes so we made some friends talking to three visi girls and two girls from Annie and my heat. Everyone was very nice. Annie and I were in the 9th heat and Ella was in number 10. When heat 9 started moving towards the start line from the check in area Annie and I did 2 striders then we asked the official some questions, got yelled at then got on the line. The first lap was very slow, but I didn’t really remember what an 800 felt like so I thought it was fine until Annie yelled at me to “move!” So I took the lead with Annie right next to me. We were passed on the second lap then we passed back and started to split off. By the third lap I started to realize that this race was going to be over soon so I started to kick ish then on the last lap I actually started kicking. Well by the time I crossed the line I felt like I had much more which is fine since this is just a December meet that didn’t mean anything. And I was happy with my indoor pr ;) since this was my first indoor 800. It was a fun race but my lungs did not enjoy the indoor track so I was coughing a drinking water while we cheered for Ella. After the race we watched the boys races and cooled down with Benji and then stretched. It was definitely a fun day.