Before I share the recap from my most recent race, here's a link to an athletic profile by the MSU Exponent that perfectly captures my relationship with food and running.
This past weekend marked my first away meet with the new team. Since it's only a few hours to Missoula, we took the school's vans and rolled up like basically the swaggiest cross country crew of all time. We got some aggressively pink shirts to wear to the course previews for the month of October to show our support for the fight against breast cancer, which is pretty awesome, and of course only enhanced our coolness factor on arrival.
The course itself was really nice. It was on a golf course, so it was relatively flat and well-groomed. It had a slight incline for parts of the first and last mile, and one gnarly hill at just over halfway. Overall it wasn't bad at all.
We woke up to perfect conditions on race day. It had been raining during the night, and it was just slightly overcast during the women's race. The pace for the first mile was probably a bit on the quick side-no one actually read off the splits for me, but a teammate told me that she had come through around 5:37. A girl from University of Idaho led the race from the gun, and from the end of the first mile on, I settled in and tried to close the gap to her. The hill took quite a bit out of me on the way up, but from there on out, most of the race was on a downhill incline, so I was still able to finish reasonably well with a 5k time of about 17:59. My team ended up winning on both the men's and women's side, so it was a great first travel trip.
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