all it went pretty good. I finished in 36:54, which was a little slower than I wanted to, but in my defense the race was mostly uphill, and I also had no idea how far I had gone so it was hard to pace myself. If you ever decided to plan a race, you should have it marked, like 1k, 2k, etc. It makes it a lot easier to run it. Once again, I was the pace setter for someone. I love that. Honestly it's one of my favorite things to feel like I helped someone else just by doing something that I was doing anyway. This time it was this guy who pretty much was with in ten feet of me the entire race, either behind or in front. When he finished I said something to him about being race buddies, and he was like, "I know, thanks so much, you really helped." Makes me smile. It is also really neat because it has been snowing for two days straight up here,(I know, crazy Utah bipolar weather) but it cleared up long enough for the race and stopped snowing, then started again when I was driving home. I'm a little disappointed because I finished 4th in my age group, which is of course fantastic and way better than I expected, but it's just annoying because if I had just been faster than one other person I would have received a medal for it. I'm waiting for the final results though to see how far ahead of me third was. If it was the girl who finished right in front of me I will be pissed because she only passed me because I stopped to tie my shoe. Anyway, I'm pretty happy about it overall and the beauty of it is that I know I can improve from that time without too much work so here's to going up from here. On other matters, I am so glad this semester is almost over. Only 25 days until I move home for the summer. I cannot wait. It has been a rough semester for me, I'm quite frankly terrified to see what my grades are going to look like, but hopefully high enough to keep my scholarship. If not though I already have a place to live, which is great. I am truly grateful for good friends.
Also, next weekend I'm going on a repelling trip down to Cedar with a few people from up here. Very excited. It's always fun to get more people out to do things like that. It is also Josh's homecoming talk. Can I just say, nerves!! I haven't seen him in 2 years, (well, 23 months but still). I have no idea what to expect or how awkward he's going to be when I do see him again, but it will also be great to see him anyway. So yeah, lots of awesome things in the next few weeks. I can't wait.
