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The All-Ohio Championships 2011

September 30, 2011 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 52 Rain 20-25mph winds

Comments:
Drove down to Cederville for the All-Ohio championships. It pretty much rained constantly on the way there and apparently during our race. I didn't really notice the rain at all. Warmed up a lot since it was fairly cold with the wind and rain and stuff. Felt really relaxed during the warmup and at the line almost alarmingly so but I think that helped a lot. I need to find how to get into that mode every time.
Box 1 at the line which ended up being really good since we were on the outside all the way to the mile. I only ever remember one time where I had to slow down or break stride going around a turn.
The race went out slower than Coach and I had planned. The course was in pretty good condition since we were the first race. Hit the mile in about 5:05 and felt pretty good and comfortable. Coach yelled at me to move up shortly after that. Its hard to describe actually how I felt. My legs felt a little tired. When she told me to start moving then I initially thought it was too early in the race to start. But I trusted her at that point and started gradually working my way up through the race at that point. Plus at that point I was behind 3 guys from ONU and I knew that had to change fast.
Just kept moving up through the whole race. Eventually got up to running with Caleb Muller, Kenny Jansako, and Evan Hitchcock. And just basically battled them for the remainder of the race. Coming to 6k they gaped me pretty good. There's actually a picture that Wyatt's mom took that shows the gap. Right at that point I passed Steve with the flag and he yelled at me to go and get up there. That's where the decision happened and I surged up the little hill there and got back to them. That definitely made the race.
Battled those guys all the way to the end. Going back and forth the last 2k. When we made the turn about half a mile ago turning into the wind they gaped me again and I honestly thought it was over. I wasn't passing any more people and I just felt like the wind was taking everything from me. But about halfway through. Janasko and Hitchcock came back to me and I was able to get rolling again. Rolled all the way into the finished. But got nipped at the line by Janasko:( Other than that very happy with the race.
I felt like this race was a lot better in terms of fight. I felt like i was really pushing catching people towards the end. Which I was which probably helped me catch more people. Definitely much happier with this race and its effort than at Calvin.
Top 5 was my goal coming in and I was 5th so that was good. Some guy I'd never heard of was first in D3 and I just got nipped at the line. I feel like I can definitely be 3rd out of the state at regionals that's the goal at regionals.
Long cool down during the other races but not timed.