Notes
Waited a day to post this because I wanted some time to reflect.
Wasn't feeling too confident because I haven't raced in a while. I didn't feel prepared and it didn't really feel like I was about to race. I figured the best thing for me to do was to take the race lightly (mentally, not physically) and just have some fun with it. It was working pretty well for the 1st half of the race but then I started dying out a little bit. After the 2 mile, I attacked that short and steep hill and then the long gradual hill wrecked me. The little shit from LWE passed me and just kept going and I was barely hanging on to these 2 Lockporters who were just dragging me along. I cruised and relaxed down the hay-baleless hill and then attacked the next hill to the best of my ability. I rounded the 800m to go tree and glanced back and saw Kyle not to far behind, which encouraged me to go faster since I remembered Kyle had an amazing final 800m finish the last couple races. I started to reel in one of the Porters and I barely managed to take him down in the final 15m of the race. Closest I've came to throwing up after a race.
All together, not too happy with how I performed. I didn't expect to have an excellent race but it's still disappointing when it doesn't happen. As a team we could've done better too. We lost out to Lockport by 8 points and Bollingbrook (how tf does this even happen) by 5 points. Granted that we didn't have John but still, he wouldn't have taken off enough points to secure 3rd place. Thankfully this race doesn't secure our fate for the rest of the postseason. Better a bad race here than at Regionals or Sectionals.