The cross country meet was held on September 7th. The boys ran at 3:45 and the girls ran at 4:35pm in Murray, Utah. It was Logan High’s third meet of the season. Many different schools attended the meet.
I was glad that the boys ran first because I wasn’t so ready to run yet, but as I watched and cheered on our boys team I felt ready then. The boys did really well. They all beat their time from the last race. That’s good because it shows we’re improving and doing well as a team. When it was almost time for the girls to start, we screamed our cheers, did our drills, and we all looked and felt pretty ready by then. It was a lot of girls running, so it was pretty crowded. The course we ran, in my experience, felt really long and hard because of the hills we ran up. My only motivation while I was running was to do it for the team and also there was this little forest-like trail that we ran through and it smelled really bad so I ran hard as I was passing through there. There were a lot of times where I wanted to stop but didn’t because I knew I would fall back behind. What also gave me some motivation to keep moving forward was my coaches, my boyfriend who was cheering for me on the sidelines, and my team cheering us on and to keep going. I feel that when you cheer someone on and tell them that they’re doing well and to keep going that it gets them going and motivated and to not give up. My goal this race was to at least beat my time from before. As I saw the finish line from a distance I ran as hard as I could. As soon as I hit that finish line I tried to calm myself down and walk but I couldn’t because my legs felt so cramped up where I couldn’t walk anymore. I also was very dehydrated so I ended up passing out minutes after and my boyfriend was there to help me and my two coaches and some of my teammates. They laid me down on the grass and put ice bags all over my body to cool me down and waited until I could function again. When I was talking again and cooled down my two coaches carried me to a building with air conditioning and waited there until the bus arrived and was loaded with everyone. Green Canyon’s school ended up carpooling with us because their driver didn’t show up, so we shared our bus and took them home. On our way home we stopped in Centerville and ate. In my experience even though I didn’t feel so great at the end of the race I had fun. Also to find out I actually beat my time from the last race, and my team was very supportive and that’s what also matters most is that we’re here cheering each other on and supporting each other when someone isn’t doing so good.
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