#WolverineWay

Listened to music on the ride up to Westlake to focus and zone out distractions. When I got off the bus I went to the bathroom then walked around the school with Big Al. Westlake, I have noticed is really into their athletes, more so then Herriman. I then had to re-park her car because Doug Padilla pulled in right behind her so it would be really tough to get out. I had to do a 12 point turn because he wouldn't move but that was fine because I needed a challenge. 

I watched the JV races and Tommy Mohan won the JV title and Lucy won the Varsity Girls title over Kami by nearly a minute. I went and warmed up with the team for about a mile but I had to go to the bathroom. After I got out I did another mile by myself then went to find the guys. We went and put our spikes on and headed to the line and did striders and Idiot drills. My legs felt recked but I knew I would be fine once I got started. 

RACE: I took off and settled right behind the lead pack of Jack Evans, Austin Brower and Rory. I sped up and caught Rory and settled in behind Brower who went out really fast the first mile. We came through our first mile 5 seconds behind Brower and we were 4:50. I caught up to him about a half mile later and never saw him again.

I made my move after passing Brower and put on a 400 meter surge to discourage any followers (Rory) and I thought he was further back but he was only about 7 seconds but oh well. I started my kick at the practice field and when I was 200 meters away I looked back and saw that Rory was close (but not close enough to catch me) so I sped up a bit and when I saw the clock said 15:00 I slowed down a bit because I had missed my goal and was a bit disappointed. Rory finished 2.6 seconds behind me but I had no idea he was that close or else I would have kicked a lot faster.

After we took pictures of our team with our spikes on because we knew we had won by a lot. We went to cooldown about a mile and a half but the guys were worried that we would miss awards. I found a Westlake XC flag and decided that it was mine. We went to the awards and saw our team score was 18 (three away from a perfect score) and 6 of our guys went sub-16 and had a 5 second spread between our 3-6 runners. We went 1-2-4-5-6-(7)-(8) because Brower was third. Now, State.