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JNQ at Mt. Itasca

Yes, I did another JNQ race, and this time it was at home. The day before the race I had a high school one. It was our first (and only) pursuit of the season and man was it a sad one. Most of the time either couldn't make it or was sick. Maggie showed up and wound up just going home. The two of us went out to do a warm up/see the course ski and after the first hill she was dying. That weekend she had an uber high fever and was just sick. I went and did the first race and just had to puke the entire time. Afterwards I did wind up puking a couple of times, and decided that I just shouldn't do the second race.

Even though I was sick Friday I still decided to race on Saturday.I did the women's 5k and think I did decently. It was a tough course, well mostly it was just a tough beginning. This is what we did; the right horseshoe into the swamp loop, up the switch back climbed all the way up the way, did a loop up top, went down part of bunny hill connected to the service road, whipped around a corner and did the biathlon loop coming out farther down the service road two sharp turns and we went down the roller coaster, up the camel humps down the water fall, to the left horseshoe and then it was just the finishing stretch.

We did an interval start one at a time at 15 seconds. I'm really angry because the girl who started behind me caught me on the wall and then proceeded to draft me for the rest of the race. I'd move to one side, she'd move to that side, I'd speed up, she'd speed up. I couldn't shake her and it really pissed me off. Anyways....I did manage to pass a couple people which made me happy. 

I wound up finishing in 17th for U18, but if I had raced for college I would've been 30th. Also for the college since the split the final placement in squads A and B (varsity and junior varsity basically), I would've wound up placing 24th for varsity which makes me feel pretty darn good about myself.

Okay, this post is really going no where cause I'm kinda in a mood and am about to go write a rant about everything because meh.

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