Obstacle #3)consistently finishing in the top 7 on the team throughout the season (only 7 runners per team compete at the Region meet so if you are not in the top 7 in the races before the region meet your coach will leave you at home)
Obstacle #3 is a tough one for myself because it is 100% outside of my control. I can't control how other people finish in respect to where I finish. I am a distance runner who has no foot speed. What can I do if there if #5,6,7 are right with me in a race of any distance and there is only a half mile to go? The answer is nothing but run as fast as I can to the finish and hope that I hold them off. 99.9% of the time all they will have to do is stride out to the finish and I just can't keep up. I lack the ability to close, so I make up for this deficiency my pushing the middle of the race-that is where I can put distance on people. I try to run a race even-not necessarily even pace since you can't control that in a xc race with the varying terrain but more so an evenly spaced effort so that I run at an effort that I can maintain for the entire length of the race and not a step more and not a step less.
Also, since I am at the far extreme in terms of slow twitch, the farther the distance of the race better I will do respectively on my team. In any 10K I am confident that I could be in the top 5. Why? How can I be in the top 5 on the team at this race when I am far less talented than the other runners? My form stinks. I have no foot speed. I probably have a much lower VO2 max, than most of the runners. So why do I think I could finish in the top 5 on my team given that I am fit and my teammates are fit? I will answer that question tomorrow.
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