Today was a huge day in Sam Houston cross country. We had a 3 mile time trial on the track. It was a very special time trial first, because many students came to watch and support us. Nobody has ever cared much about distance runner's around here, but tonight was an exception, everyone was supportive it was wonderful. Secondly, what happened in the time trial was fantastic. I was definitely the favorite to win it going in, everyone was telling me to break the time trial record of 14:55 set by Dustin Joubert, which would be a incredibly hard task for me. We started and I took the early lead by a considerable margin and held it through two miles. I pushed the pace slightly just to see if the record was in the cards for me. I was running very evenly, and I wasn't hurting too incredibly bad. After two miles however, patrick krol and blake woolums came up and by 450m it turned into a battle between the three of us for the finish. Patrick took the lead at 200m to go and I put everything I had into staying with him and I did, but I just couldn't muster enough to pass him. Pat ran 15:15 and I ran 15:16. I did not run bad though, pat just ran better. I ran even splits basically all the way through. (5:03, 5:07, 5:06) Blake finished with 15:20, but what was most impressive was how the next three runners ran. Julius ran 15:27, clint ran 15:31 and travis ran 15:34. All of those guys ran huge PR's.
The significance of all these performances is that we have only been running mileage for the summer and yet we are PRing. Last track season was a bust and all of the guys went home for the summer with the motivation to prove that they were better than they had ran. So after a summer of 70 and 80 plus mile weeks the SHSU cross-country team reported back to school ready to rock n' roll. And that we are. We are deep, we are determined, and most importantly...we are resillent. We have the foundation, now we have to build on it.
Watch out southland confrence, the kat is on the prowl.
I locked up pretty bad after this race so I'm probably taking tomorrow off unless I just feel great.
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