From running log:
Cross country practice. 1 mile warmup, 5 mile workout, 0.1 cooldown (6.1 miles). Easy road workout, 7:45 to 8:00 pace. Legs felt stiff from yesterday. Whirlpooled. Beat Dells tomorrow! Must beat Connors tomorrow - must! Varsity will be: me, McGann, Crary, Ben, Nellie, Kelly, Nikl. I know we can win. I feel okay. McGann should do well.
30 years later:
I guess you could see that I was a little fired up about the next day's race! The truth is, up until this point in my running career, I had never won a race overall. I had been aiming for this cross country season for months. I had trained through the summer. I had designed the home race course to favor my strengths and to intimidate the competition. I had raced my main competitors in summer road races, and they had beaten me (with a little help from a train!). This was my chance at redemption, my opportunity to cash in on all I had invested. Tomorrow would be the culmination of a lot of training, talking, dreaming, and planning.
If you look at that varsity lineup, that would be our team more-or-less for the rest of the season. It was quite a hodge podge of personalities, styles, and levels of experience. But it was what we had, and we were in it together.
Tune in tomorrow to see how we would do in our first home meet of the year.
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