Super Six X-Country

On Wednesday the 27th HNI competed against 6 other schools in Hawkes Bay for X-country. We arrived at Park Island, and walked the course to see where to sprint past someone and also to talk about the course. There were 2 ditches that we had to cross, 1 hill and the course was 3 km long. Both year 8 and 7 do the same distances.
The year 7 girls went first... HNI had a great run and came in 2nd sadly getting beaten by Taradale. It was a great and hard race.
Next came the Year 7 boys... I was in the race and hoped on getting in the top 5. We warmed up and jogged over to the starter line. The race started with a BANG!!
The year 7 boys shot off the starter line. I had a bad start and started off around 30th. I then started to pick up the pace and caught up to top five then ran around the corner. Top 3. Top 2. Ollie Marshall is my biggest competitor as well as Adam Baron. Both are great runners.
I was around 20 metres behind Ollie and caught up to ten. Over the first ditch. Jump! I ran on hearing footsteps behind me. I risked a quick glance and looked back. Seeing Adam behind me made me run even faster. We ran up the hill that's where Adam passed me. "Don't worry" I told myself, " I'll catch him up". I did, I passed him down hill. We jumped the second stream and I kept running passed the finish around to the start. 1 lap to go!
I stayed in front of Adam and gained distance. The finish was nearing and I had almost used all my energy up. The hill upward was tiring. I was closing in on Ollie but he was still around 15 metres in front. Adam was also closing in but I ran away and jumped over the last creek. I was 100 metres away from the finish and slowly closing in on Ollie. 14 metres away from Ollie 13, 12, 11, 10 but it was too late he had crossed the finish and then... So had I. Adam was around 18 metres behind me.
2nd. 2nd! I was exhausted and almost collapsed on my own legs. I congratulated Adam and Ollie and so did they. We talked for a while and all said that, that was a hard race. I sat back down and watched and waited for the year 8 girls to go. Then year 8 boys.
The schools all sat down and all went quite as they waited for the top 3 schools to be announced. Then the Taradale teacher announced 3rd place for the schools. Then 2nd which was HNI we cheered for our school. Then as expected 1st place Taradale.
It was a great race, and HNI did..... SPECTACULAR!!!!