Today was Grass Relays!!! This is one of my favorite races, and is always a ton of fun. I got to the race and just chilled for a few hours before the varsity relay. I was running first, which was perfect because I knew I would run faster if I had a bunch of people around me. The gun went off and I got out fast enough to be in the very front when we got off the track. Christian Allen got out into first shortly after, and I ran with him and Coleman from Jordan for the first 800 or so. Once we got to the bottom of the U-turn Zac Jacklin came flying by which I figured would happen at some point. Him and Christian took off and I ended up running by myself with a bunch of guys behind me for the entire middle mile. My mile split was 5:03, which felt fast but not problematically fast. With 800 to go some guy from Salem Hills passed me and I didn't go with him when I really should have. I finished out the last 800 at a decent pace and ended up in fourth place at the handoff. I feel like I had quite a bit left in the tank and didn't really kick that hard, so I am very pleased with my place in this race. I ended up sixth overall which was kind of cool cuz I got a little plaque thing. Our team did awesome and got fourth place overall, and Seth absolutely killed it in his leg. We beat Westlake who were supposedly going to be better than us this season which is awesome. I had my doubts about how good we would be this year, but this race gave me a big confidence boost with Zack and Seth running so well.
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