Best race of my life today. Hands down. We got to the course and everybody was feeling good in the hours leading up to the race. We got a decent warm up then headed over to the lengthy introductions. The gun went off and I got out very well, top 20 at about 400 meters in. The pace was hot but I was feeling good and stuck in there. Came through mile 1 in 4:48 and felt smooth. The middle mile is where I fell off last year so I made sure to not let the guys I was running with get any kind of gap on me. Two mile split was 9:48. At this point I realized I was on pace to run really fast and was still feeling good so I passed a couple guys and filed in behind Camren Todd of Davis and tried to just hold on. Ended up passing a few more dudes and when we hit the final straightaway I was hauling to try and keep my position. Ended up finishing in 15:17 with Jamison right behind in 15:18. My goal coming into this was under 15:30 so I was ecstatic. We waited around for a while and did a good long cool down with connor Baller before awards. I got a cool third team All Region shirt and we got third as a team! Apparently there was a three way tie for first between us, Timpanogos, and Mountain Vista, then they went and looked at a photo finish which gave MV the win, and we lost on the sixth man to Timp. kind of a bummer since we were 1 point from winning the whole thing, but I definitely like our chances for the at large bid. Great, great day. | 