It was nice to go up to a group of girls and say, 'I need this out of you,' and they delivered. They worked for it today.
We've never had this much depth before in our distance troop. They really carry a lot of points for us.
What I told the girls tonight was when you get to that point in your mind where you're thinking 'I just can't go any faster, I just can't go any further,' you need to reach deep down in and pull something out. I think a lot of those girls came through with that.
The girls really deserved this. When someone tells me 'congratulations,' I think only a small part goes to me and a lot of it goes to the girls. They really worked for it and earned it.
The girls certainly delivered. They did exactly what we asked them to -- to worry about place and not worry about time.
I was pleasantly surprised to see things came as close as they did. We had some really good performances from a lot of our new kids and our distance troup is very deep and we have some good quality there.
It's a top-notch facility; it's a little different than what we typically are running on. It's the atmosphere too, of knowing 'wow, this is where states will be.' In a way it mentally prepares them for what is yet to come. It motivates them to come back.
