2.5miles to 3.1 (Cross Country Course Change)

Wednesday night was a whole mess of disappointment and upset teenage girls. No, it'snot because of Pretty Little Liars or Teen Wolf. It's because the board of athletics (or something like that, I actually forgot the name of the organization but it's in the paper somewhere) voted to change the length of the girl's high school cross country race from 2.5 miles to 3.1. I was DEVASTATED. As the typical girl would say; "I can't even". 

I've heard there were many reasons as to why it was changed. My coach told me it was because the girls are getting so fast that it's hardly even considered a race anymore when there are girls finishing with times in the 14's. Another speculation as to why it changed was it changed was because many felt that girls should get to run the same distance as boys do, and they felt it was unfair that our course was shorter. 

I, however, didn't want the course to be changed for many reasons as well. My first reason being that every year on milesplit, your best times are posted and they get faster every year. Last year my best was 18:18 and this year is 17:58 but next year the times will show up in the 20's which screws up the ENTIRE point of visual progress! I have major OCD towards that and it makes me so mad to know that I'll never know how much faster I'd get if the course were the same. My second reason being is that it'll be my senior year so by the time we adjust to the new length of the course, our running careers will be over. My third reason is the fact that I'm absolutely dying at the 2 mile mark and I can barley get to the finish without feeling like passing out and throwing up, how am I expected to make it to 3.1 AND get a decent time?? Most importantly, this new change will make a lot of girls quit the sport which eliminates competition....which makes the remaining competition even tougher. I even wanted to quit when I found out about the switch in lengths....shout out to Reece and Calvin for convincing me not to though.

I guess we can only wait and see what this next season brings, I hope it's not complete hell, though.