Well Bull Run overall was pretty good except for a few people(of course). Leading off the day from when we got there was the open race. Me, TT, Zach in his first ever xc race. Got out at an appropriate clip i was in second or third throughout the first mile behind TT and either blue guy or white guy. Mile passed in 532 which is almost exactly what i wanted and the effort felt just about right vs 2 weeks ago when it felt hard. Tried to stick with white guy and i think i caught back up to him near the dip but then 1-2 people passed me on the dip. I believe i was 5th in the soccer field and then repassed blue guy on the wood chip hill and pulled away from him. Supposedly the second mile was 6:00 but i think it was actually more like 6:20(or else that makes more sense because i dont think i went 6/640 for the last two). So basically held my ground the rest of the way until the last straightaway when Phil Diven passed me grr. 1810 or 1811 overall which is just about what i was aiming for(sub 18). TT won in 1655. Zach did 2047.
In the medium race our boys JV did a solid job, then boys varsity also ran well last year our #1 was 1958 and this year our #4 was 2034 so that is some good work(also all 4 people were different than the 4 from last year). The girls were a little disappointing as Laura was having a great race but then got dehydrated and fell over with 300 to go. Merritt was tired from hard running this week and didnt run well. Shell be fine next week if we take it easier. We had very hard wo monday and dual meet at hereford wednesday. Not quite ideal as its hard to run easy at hereford. No worries though because they are fit.
Small race was not great mcdonogh had 2! boys on varsity patty and matt brown and patty didnt have a good race like 1852. ugh he should be faster than me. i think it was a minute slower than last year meh.
Mcd girls did fairly well maggie had a good race low to mid 22s. Our JV girls performed well many cutting minutes off of their wednesday time. Of course when you start at 36-40 minutes its easy to cut some time but still.
Oh btw winning elite boy was 1553 some kid from va. nice. and oneda won the girls in 1903 as another va girl was right with her until 200 to go and then flopped over. still managed to come 4th though.
Since the race i did 6 relaxed yesterday and then a briefly split up 8.5 today(just under 3 at franklin- then drive to mcd with about 45 min break total and then 44 more min with tt- ill just call it 8.5 total)
Im fairly tired i might move the wo to wednesday which is prob smart. I have 3 weeks until next race and why rush it if im still tired?
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