directions_run Run • Nov. 9, 2025, 8:08 p.m.

Yesterday’s state meet was a very bittersweet ending for my season. After so many of ups and downs I wanted to end off the season with a good race. Unfortunately, I woke 3 days before the race with a sore throat. I tried to keep my head up but day by day it got worse. By the morning of the race I had trouble breathing on the warmup. The sickness combined with the low iron caused me to feel worse than any other race this season. In the first 400 I already felt my throat closing up. I went through the first mile in 5:06 and was pretty much last place. The rest of the race I was just wanted to finish and not give up. I saw the clock and my time was about a minute slower than I ran at Richard spring. After I crossed the line I was shaking and out of breath and it continued for the rest of the day. But the worse part was that I didn’t achieve the goal I had been working towards every single day for the last 6 months. I also felt like I had let the team down. But, I never expected that every single guy on the team would come up to me to tell me they were proud and didn’t care about how I raced. The support I saw yesterday reminded me how tightly knit this team is and how glad I am to be apart of it. I know everyone yesterday whether they were supporting or racing gave it their all. Although this wasn’t the season I had hoped for I am confident going into track that things will be different.