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Welcome to the Mike Johnson Classic here at Western Oregon University. 

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My favorite part of the Mike Johnson Classic is 

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we're all wearing pretty much red and black, you know.

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And then even some of the outside schools, I saw a lot of red and black.  

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I think it's a good meet to just get everyone together

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and, you know, have fun out here and just come together as a community even.  

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To prepare for today's race, I definitely had plenty of water.

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Like. even, like 2 weeks ahead cuz I saw the weather 

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and it was going to be really toasty today.

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So I made sure to get plenty of water and plenty of sleep, too. 

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My main goal for the season is I want to win regionals.

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So that's in a few week actually, really looking forward to that. 

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My favorite part of the Mike Johnson Classic's gotta be

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how we get a lot of teams out here. 

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It helps to kinda bunching up in the race and trying to run with people, 

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as opposed to, you know,  just kinda struggling out there on your own. 

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The hardest part about today's race...

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we do a lot of work on the course. We do a lot of repeats and stuff.

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But every time the hardest part is the berms.

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I mean it's cross country so everything's gonna be hard. 

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But you start getting tired and you hit those berms it gets pretty tough. 

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Because people are bunched up you start thinking about  

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how fast did the race go out? And if it went out too slow

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which is why people are going to be bunched up. 

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Then it's gonna start to pick up real quick.  

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You just have to know that it's gonna start to spreading out. 

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You're not gonna know when that's gonna happen. 

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But you gotta know it's gonna happen and you gotta be prepared for that.  

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The strategy was about a mile to go, 1k to go, somewhere in between there,

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I kinda saw Emmett up in the front so I was just trying to catch up with him

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And up until that point Dustin was really pulling me along. 

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I don't know it's hot. I feel really hot right now.   

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I wanna take a shower. 

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