for those of you that know my brother Andrew (probably from the Wasatch Back Relay) he ran at his district meet yesterday to try and qualify for the state championships next Saturday. It is a huge meet, and it can be quite difficult to qualify. Andrew has been running times all year that have indicated that he had a very good shot at qualifying this year. However, he got sick a couple of days ago, and despite having run a 16:44 5k last week on a course that is not the fastest around and being on a much faster course yesterday, he ran his worst race of the year, finishing in 17:50 for 5k, good for 93rd place. His teammate whom he beat by 3 seconds last week, qualified for state fairly comfortably finishing in 17th (30 qualify for state). Races like that really suck. You train for so long to try and reach certain goals, and you feel like you should be able to reach those goals, yet then at the last minute a wrench gets thrown in your face and it feels like all of your preparation is for naught. I know I have had races that turned out that way, and I am sure that Andrew feels that way now. I feel bad for him.
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