Raced well in both races. I'll try and write more when I have more time. 3200-Ran solo for most of it. I haven't hurt more in a race before. During the last 3 laps I wanted to quit the whole time, even at the 100m to go mark. 800-Huge PR that felt like it came out of nowhere. Unsure how, but I'll take it.
Warmed up, then got to the bull pen on time. There was a pretty good group in the race. My dad told me that Elijah had ran 9:00.78 on Friday, so he wanted to see if I could beat that. I just wanted to win so I could get points for the team, because we were going to have to fight for a 2nd place finish(top 2 teams get trophies). We got out there, and I stayed more relaxed at the start so I wouldn't get too close to being DQ'ed again. With 150m into the race I got into first and tried to keep a good pace. 1:05, a little fast, but I don't want to slow down. 2:10ish, way too fast, but we'll see how things go. Tomy was at the 200m mark, so that was cool to have him cheer me on 1600m split was 4:25, so that was faster than wanted, but it gave me a cushion to break 9. At 2000m, I felt terrible. My last three laps were the most painful I've ever run(maybe other than some repeat 400s a few weeks ago, but it was close). I can't remember much about what happened in the last mile other than it hurt, and I told myself I wasn't going to run the 800 if I broke 9. I pushed to the finish and got 8:57.99. After I cooled down with Clayson, Jack Evans, and Josh. It was pretty fun running after the race, but after that I was out of it, just so tired I coudn't think straight.
Well, my head coach wanted me to run the 800 to possibly score some points, and the Coach Wright said if anything else, it'd be good training for any post-season races. I was really tired, but warmed up anyway. I begged Coach Wright not to make me, but I said if he thought it would be best, than I would do it. So I ended up doing it. I saw the girls 4A 1st heat, and a Sky View girl won that, so that motivated me to do well in my heat. I got to the start line and a few people had dropped it, so a Salem Hills guy and me were able to start in the second ally with plenty of room. I felt terrible, but right before the race, I told myself if I was going to line up for this race, I was going to race it all out. I got out well, and pushed into 2nd place, in a perfect position. I got pushed back to 3rd, but got back into 2nd with a lap to go. We came across the 400 in 58, so I said to myself that if I could close in a 60, I could PR. I stuck on the 1st place guy, and with 100 left, I tried to pass the kid in front of me. I slowly passed him, but he wasn't letting up. With 10 meters left I thought I had him, but he kept coming and was .01 seconds from me. A hundreth of a second, I was so surprised! And a huge PR too. After that, Tyson took 3rd in the fast heat, and broke the school record, running a 1:55.3! I placed 5th overall, so I scored some points that I didn't think I could score. After, I cooled down with Hayden Cooper from Maple Mountain, because Tyson had to get ready for th 4X400m.
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