Las Vegas Invitational: Overall finish-4th, 1st place small school division. Finally I was able to have a good race! I stayed focused the entire race and pushed HARD! Definitely the hardest I have ever pushed myself in XC. There was over thousand racers total, and about 286 in the varsity race I think. As the race got started I focused on getting out into a good position because I heard it got hectic in the pack. I meant to get out hard, but I didn't mean to lead. 1st mile- 5:02. (Probably too fast but I felt good still.) Dajour Braxton caught me at the 1.5 mile mark and hung with me for a bit before taking off FAST into the lead. Second mile hurt BAD and I fell to 5th place. (5:20) It got REALLY hot at this point too. On the last mile I started to hurt really really bad but I focused on staying with the guys in front of me. With half a mile left coach told me to catch a kid in red that was a good 60-70m ahead, and I focused on reeling him in and caught him and passed him at the finish to take 4th. Great race and a great place in such a big meet., I'm glad I'm not a head case anymore, I just have to remember to stay focused more. I came through 3 miles at 15:50 (which is pretty good considering the heat) and finished with a 16:44 because the race was long and about 3.2 miles instead of 3.1. Sadly Nick hill wasn't feeling too great because I was hoping to have a sweet battle with him, but he still had a good race considering, pv ended up winning the large school race. And my team won the Small school race!!!! So region 9 represented well!
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