Nike race day. The past couple of weeks I’ve been working really hard and looking forward to this day, but the night before I started to get really nervous. I think I was worried that the race would end up like most of my other races and I️ would end up sucking. It didn’t help that i got almost no sleep the night before because people in my room were either snoring or didn’t want the AC on (no offense but I almost went insane). Luckily I just shook those thoughts off as soon as the gun went off and suddenly I knew I was physically ready and had mentally prepared myself throughout the past couple of weeks. The starting shoot was really hectic but I found a pack of Pine View guys and I don’t remember who was all there except Mikey and Scottie. The first mile was actually pretty rough and longer than I expected, but I stuck up in pretty good. The beginning of the second mile was when Colton found me and we were able to push off of each other for quite a while. One part when I was next to him tho some jerk kid shoved me and then didn’t even have the sense to pass me after doing so. That pissed me off hardcore and that fueled me for a while, and then Colton fell off me. Probably from mile 1.5 through 2.5 was a pretty rough chase of Mikey and I would end up catching him and then falling off and it was a battle to always have him within reaching distance. The last half mile came up and I️ was trying so hard to kick but it just wasn’t happening as I wanted. Even when I saw the finish my kick didn’t come in as until later. i still ended up passing Mikey near the finish, but I was pissed at myself because I could tell he had had stomach problems when I passed him and if he hadn’t he would have beaten me. That really made me mad at myself because i feel like for the past 4 week training block like coach was talking about I was pushing ahead of Mikey and should have bean ahead of him earlier. OverallMost of this race was really reassuring and it felt like a lot of hard work had payed off, but it also showed me what I need to work on in racing and to keep working on staying with the team during practice.
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