On Monday we had our first cross country meet and I PRed (Personal Record) by 6 minutes and 29 seconds. My official time was 25 minutes and 19 seconds for the 5k, which thrilled me, and then we found out that the course was about 400 meters too long. That made me mad because it was a school meet and they should have changed it, but it also means my actual time, assuming I kept the same pace, was about 23:30. :D Yay! I also moved up on the team, from 60 out of 126 to 48 out of 126. I want to move up a speed group soon. Besides the fact that the second group has dri-fit shirts, and the third, wher eI am now, has polyester. Which is light, but still.
Dri-fit.
We have another meet tomorrow and I really want to get under 24:30. My goal is 25 though... just in case the 400 extra meters didn't exist. Also, I have a very hard time believing that I ran it in 23:30. That just sounds crazy fast. I know I was going fast... But was I really under an 8 minute mile? A 5 minute kilometer?
I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
I need good blog post ideas.
Aw, I'm so proud of you! I really hope you get to move up a speed group because I know you'd be amazing and it's something you really want. Good luck :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I made my goal for the next meet, ran it in 24:25 and got 36th place on my team. I haven't moved up a group and I'm not sure I'm quite ready yet (I can't keep up with them once we're past about 40 minutes on the clock, and our long runs are 60 minutes), but I get closer every day. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's great! :)
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