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O-HI-O, HI-O-HI, O-HI-O-HI-Case Western Reserve University

October 17, 2009 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 45 Cloudy

Comments:
I came into this with sort of a good feeling about today for some reason, oddly confident. We went out too slow in 5:14 and the team struggled. I sort of broke off the pack, I think around the two mile mark, and tried to keep on passing people. My calves were sore for the last couple miles and ran ok but not better. I sort of felt like everyone on our team let me take it when I didn't run well enough to deserve it and I may have hurt us some in that way. The mud was certainly an issue in terms of our actual times today. This was the first race this year where I am failed to run faster than last year, and that bothers me regardless of the weather. All in all, I ran okay, though not as well as I would have liked. As far as the team goes, this was bad. I'm starting to wonder if we collectively have let go of our desire to make it to nationals. That's a terrible thought to have. Perhaps we need to just catch lightning in a bottle on exactly the right day. Maybe that's the way it has been all along to tell the truth. At least we beat Oberlin today, hopefully moving up a spot in the regional rankings. That's something.

All that being said, our team goal had better still be to make it to nationals. Looking at the results, the score looks terrible, but the clock shows us a lot closer. We were just behind everyone we needed to beat today. Today is over. We need to turn some heads at conference or get third at regionals. That's what it comes down to.