Waubonsie Valley senior Shakeia Pinnick won five medals, including two national championships, last week at the AAU Junior Olympics. The track and field star also wrote a diary about her experience for Dyestat.com.
Pinnick writes about her race strategies, takes the readers through each event of her championship in the heptathlon, explains how she competed in the 800-meters final and the 400-meter hurdles within 90 minutes and tells us that the wind conditions on the final day contributed to a disappointing time in the 400-meters final.
The final was crazy with the wind swirling and changing constantly. When we came off the last curve, we ran right into a headwind. It was not good for us smaller athletes.
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