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Regionals

November 14, 2009 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 65 Sunny

Comments:
We went out fast and I knew it. It killed me; not going out fast, but knowing it. I crossed the mile, not hurting physically, but mentally wrecked. We went down very slight hill after about a 2k into the race, where Cromer and Phil surged forward some, and I got dropped mentally. At this point I completely broke and was passed by everyone I saw for the remainder of the race.

Although I did not know if we had made it or not because we finished in fifth only four points behind Mount Union, I did know that there is a good chance I single-handedly cost my team a trip to Nationals. Way back at the beginning of the season, at the spaghetti dinner before the intersquad meet, I made myself three simple goals for the season:

1. Help the team make it to Nationals.
2. No Choking.
3. Don't be selfish and earn the respect of my teammates.

Today, I managed to shatter all three in such a dramatic way that I could have never seen possible. For the last month, I’ve been complaining about how it seems like nobody cares that we won’t make it to nationals. Today it looked like the only person who didn’t care was me. Everyone else ran what they needed to for us to make it and I choked.