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I put a poll on my Instagram story yesterday so you could vote on my next blog post. It came to 50/50 and stayed like that for most of the day, so I decided to chose between the two and wrote this one, however when I looked at the results last night, "life without running" had more votes but I had already written the Sussex Schools XC race recap so I am posting this one today and next weekend "life without running" will go up. I am so sorry to all those who voted for the other blog post - I promise it will be up next week. I hope that you still enjoy reading this - sorry for the lack of photos, some were taken but I can't find them online. Wednesday 17th January 2018 Coming into this race my goal was to qualify for nationals. After seeing how far I had come in 2017, I decided that wanted to go to English Schools 2018. We left school for Waterhall, Brighton at 1030 to get there with enough time for the Junior girls to warm up before their race at 1215. On arrival we set up a base with our bags and took a trip to the trusty port-a-loos. It was freezing, I was wearing lots of layers plus gloves, scarf and a hat (which I looked stupid in however Beth managed to pull off the hat look 😊) . We then got our numbers before heading off for a course walk (we could have taken multiple course walks if we really wanted; we had 3 hours before the senior girls race). The conditions were perfect; bright sunshine, soft ground (but not too slippy) and not at all muggy. Those who have raced at Waterhall before know of the hill and for those who haven’t – lets just say – lets just say it is a bit of a killer. We made it to the bottom of the hill but we had to wait until the junior girls had all passed before we continued. Beth, Alice, Kat, Adam, Ollie, Ben, Leo and I chilled at the bottom of the hill and cheered people on until we could continue. Just as we thought everyone had passed, two girls came up walking- we cheered them on “well done, keep going” but after that one of the girls dropped to the ground and CRAWLED up the hill on her hands and knees – bless her, but honestly it was hilarious and the first time I have ever seen anyone do anything like that.
After finishing our course walk we grabbed something to eat before heading back to the bottom of the hill to cheer on Mags , Alice W and the rest of the girls in the Inter girls race. 1345 Spikes in, time to warm up…. Beth, Alice, Kat and I warmed up in between cheering on the boys in the Inter boys race (well done Ned for coming 4th!). We did some strides, high knees and stretches. 1405 Layers start to come off so I was left in a long sleeved top and canterburys. 1410 We took our places on the start line, handed our layers to Mr Brown (head of PE at school), wished each other luck before the gun went at 1415. I hate the last few minutes before the gun; everyone is so tense and it is silent. The race started off well, I was trying to get a fast-ish start before getting to the hill where it narrowed. We had a lap of each field before doing one big lap with the hill (a total of 4.3km). About half way through I was 5th – I knew this because my goal was to be in the top 4 so that I could qualify for nationals, therefore I kept an eye on how many girls were in front of me. As we approached the last 1.3kms I was in 5th, I was happy with this but something happened - I managed to overtake the person in 4th and then 3rd and I was now 2nd as we came up to the finishing straight – what?!! I was so close to 1st position and looking back at it now I wish I gave that extra kick as there was only 1second between us. Anyhow I am over the moon with coming 2nd and qualifying for nationals, bearing in mind I came 14th last year and 2016/2017 was my first XC season. When I turned round in the finishing funnel I saw Alice in 4th – it made me so happy that she qualified too (even if she says she hates XC and it is all for the jumpers haha). Not long behind her was Emma (fruitsandroutes) in 8th and Beth in 10th! Our team also came 1st which topped off the race. Overall it was a fab day with my buddies. Unfortunately as we were trying to leave, the minibus was making some very strange noises and would not start 😐 after 15minutes, it decided to start again and we headed home; getting back to school at 1630. Beth and I then walked to the sports centre and relaxed in the steam room and sauna for a bit. Well done to everyone who raced on Wednesday and this weekend. I hope everyone has had a good week despite the bad weather this weekend and the illnesses going around.
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