She passed these two runners on the left just before the finish
Rose Bud ran her customary 5th on the team. She is nothing if not consistent! Her time was an excellent 17:15 and she was 61 out of 101 runners. The team was 6th.
The coach is unhappy, however, with the 5th place spot. He is justified, in the sense that because RB is coming in quite a bit behind the 4th place runner, an improvement would help the team in a big way. He wants someone to step up and improve their 5th place performance.
RB feels awful because she really feels like she is doing her best. She IS only a freshman. She also has run very consistently all season. She runs consistently in that 5th spot AND she runs consistently in about the 50th-62nd percentile of the field. She's not all over the place, running very well one week and terribly the next.
Part of it IS probably a head game. There is so much in running that is dependent on your mental state. If you believe you can, often you can. But there are the physical factors as well, and to just shave 30 seconds off your time is a HUGE change to make. As her time has improved this season, so have the times of ALL the runners and so she remains in that same percentile, just below 50.
So each week, she tries out some strategies the coach gives her to see whether they work for her. Some have, some haven't.
In any case, as her parents, we are incredibly proud of all she's accomplished this season!
umm...yeah! This is art! What a cool photo! Actually, I swung around as she passed me and I was trying to take the picture and see her time on my ipod at the same time!
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