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South Central regional Championship in Canyon Texas, on "The Range." Elevation was around 3500. Temp at about 65 and very little wind. overall there were some pretty good hills on the course but i only noticed the downhills.
First off i would like to state that throwing down a white line and tape on a graded construction site does not make it a cross coutry course. with that said this course actually look quite promising the day before. It would have actually probably been fast if it werent long, my watch came in at 6.39 so, also the mid races plits were way off as i dont think im currently capable of a 12 minute 4k, midrace at least.
I had been feeling pretty crappy for the past week and i dont remember feeling like a collegate athlete since last saturday. I really dont know what to blame this poopy feeling on since up until monday everything we have done has worked out just fine. i might have actually peaked last saturday. legs and breathing just werent working. Obviously the ability was still but it was like i was cursed
started out the race and by the 2k i was already gassed. tried to stay with joel and anders but it just wasnt going to happen. i think i passed andy and chase a little past the 3k. i think i passed ryan around the 5k. just really never felt good during this race and certianly never got the second wind in the last 3k. Somehow still ended up passing people though every split through the race though so thats good. had no kick at the end but i did battle it out for the last 4k of the race with some dude.
I still think that Chase should not have gone on this trip. I think it would have been more valuble to give freshman expeirence in the 10k,
As for the team this race wasnt kind to really anyone. joel and anders didnt have terrible races but i still think we could all have done much better. I think we all knew this to be true and we definitly have the workouts to back that up. Although the team this year didnt do as well as we wanted to, there was still and overall improvment i think in everything that happened from the begining of the season to the end, although i wasnt here last year to confirm that. the team actually did better than we have in a long time, but so did like the whole region and our confrence specifically. im certinally sad about todays results but it definitly gives us a lot of good to work on for next fall, i think we will only get better.
And ill also through in a prediction for next season. Ithink sub 25 8k and 31:45 10k will happen. These may be lofty goals but they need to be that way for us to achive what we need.
I know this i getting long but i also need to say that this year has been really great so far. The mentality on campus and on the team is much better. i cant really put into words exactly what it is, as i couldnt really do the same for why UND was a good fit but oh well. mabey its just the hills.