Notes
XC Regionals at Grinnell. 45th place.
Halfway in 13:08.00
***A classic example of not stepping up to the competition around you. My first regionals and I never found a rhythm. I got out faster than I was comfortable but was still way behind my teammates. I passed halfway pretty fast and soon passed Drew. That was quite depressing as we needed a good run from Drew to qualify for nationals unless everyone else stepped up. I held my own and ran a huge PR, but I didn't come close to our 5th runner and influencing our score. We were 6th and we had to be 5th to have a chance (only 4 teams would qualify).
Drew would have had to had a very good race for us to qualify. More so, our top 5 all just had average races instead of good ones. And I should have been better all season long. I had focused so hard on my mileage that I didn't realize until nearly too late that my immense fitness was not being translated into fastness. I had just PR'd my over 30sec and felt like I was just now rounding into shape. I think I could have been a sub 26 guy this year and who knows what that would have done.