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UAA Cross Country Championships 2010

October 30, 2010 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: Nice day perfect weather to run

Comments:
Today's race for me personally wasn't the greatest. I'll take it and if its the worst race I run all year I'd definitly say I had a pretty good year but right not I'm just not happy with how it went down. The race went out pretty slow. The first mile was like a 5:05 to 5:10 and people were talking. The general consenus between the top guys was Rajon Rondo is a very good basketball player. Kinda stayed together until the back loop. I lead at this point because I got fed up with all the shit from the lead guys and didn't want to get boxed in on the narrow turns. Generally got passed by people after that. I figured that would happen. Dan Addis made a break and from there it pretty much became him out front and then a chase pack. I attempted to hang onto the chase pack like I did at Oberlin. I was running with Ryan Boyd at this point, going down the down hills in the back loop. From there I kinda just don't know what happened. It pisses me off. I could see the race there in front of me. The pack chasing Addis with me about 10 meters behind. I even thought to myself that I needed to be with them. But I just never did it. It pisses me off. I just held position for the rest of the race. Tried to pick it up in the last bit after cresting cemetary hill but wasn't able to really pass anyone. I think I passed like one guy. Just could never get rolling like usual there at the end.
Team wise we definitly did a lot better than last year. Everybody finished which says something for the health of our team and we had 3 in before we had one in last year. We also destroyed the team we beat. That said out goal coming into this meet was to finish in the top 4 and we got 7th. We were about 60 points off that. The confrence was definitly deep this year as everyone but Emory should be ranked, but still we got destroyed. And from scoring out the meet with just the returners it doesn't give lots of hope. We're 6th how I scored us. We beat Emory and Brandeis who didn't have enough returners to make a team so I projected. That being said we probably handly beat them just with the returners. But that only projections a lot can happen in a year. We just need to work harder and we can definitly be up there with NYU and Wash U next year.