I woke up this morning and all of the sudden I realized that I was racing at nationals. So I started to get real nervous. Then I remembered Evan Jager's advice: "If you are nervous, that means you care." Anyway the flag went down and the gun went off. I realized that if I don't take it out fast I never run a very fast race, so I just went out and focused on the ground to make sure I didn't fall. Then at the 1 mile mark I just hung with Seth. At about 2000 meters, Seth, Justin, and I were running all really close. It stayed that way till 2.5 miles. Then Justin and Seth started pullin away a little bit. Then we just kicked it in at about the same speed, they were just 65 yards away. Anyway it was a very prestigious race. S/O to Conner Baller who finished 9th at footlocker west and secured himself a spot at Foot Locker Nationals.
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