This is my first entry of the season which is pretty bad but I guess you have to start somewhere. This was the most amazing race for me I didnt expect to do nearly as good as I did. I felt good throughout the whole warm up and go my spikes on just mentally preparing myself for the race. When i got up to the line I felt ready for the race to start when the gun went off I didnt take off very fast I was probably in the middle pack but I was steadily passing people. After i came through the track the first time the time was around 5:10 and I had moved up from probably in the first 20-30 people to like the top 15 and i could see josh leading a pack up in the distance and I was steadily gaining on them. and i started passing them and ran next to josh for a little bit and i started pulling in head of him by the parking lot and I could see a few desert hells guys up in front of me and i realized i was in like the top 10 and i thought that was prety crazy and i made up my mind to catch them and I had passed the 2 of them by the grass before the baseball field and i was running by another hellion for a while whose name was Jake also so when people cheered for him i pretended they were cheering for me and i think it might of actually helped. I finally passed him after made it around the tennis courts. I could see Andrew and Logan up in the distance about to enter the track and thought there was no way i could catch them but soon i realized i was gaining on them and just before i entered the grass by the parking lot i had passed Andrew and Logan right after that on the grass and I thought it was crazy i was in third place. I could see Reed and Dave up in the distance but they had a lead and i knew there was no way i could catch them. I was pushing it pretty hard and it was starting to hurt but i still felt strong and i was coming through the baseball field and I heard coach roberts say i know it hurts but you have to dare to go so I used that to encourage me and I picked up my pace more and by the time I entered the track like almost every race i felt there is no way i can kick but i can hear everyone cheering so i start going harder anyway and by the last 100 im thinking this hurts to bad i cant go any faster but then just told myself if that as soon as I stop the pain will go away so i just pushed myself the last little bit especially after seeing the time under 17:00 and I ended up with a time of 16:55. It really was a great race i felt strong the whole time and I was passing people the whole time. Even the cooldown wasnt so bad and that usually kills me after each race. All together that was definitely the best race ever and it was awesome to get my first medal and score for the first time and for our jv team to get a perfect score. | 