i don t really know where it came from. everyone says how gutsy it was and how hard it must have been to finish a race like that. honestly, i think it s the most effortless i ve ever felt in a race. it was truly like i was lifted up on angel s wings. with the crowd still in a tizzy over her outrageous feat, heather prepares to take her spot atop the ceremony podium. that s when audrey smoot of indiana university brings her back down to earth. audrey won the first heat just before heather, beating her time by slightly more than .1 second. but she didn t fall down. she s like, um, i actually won. i was, like, sorry. had to scoot on over to take second there. it was a funny thing that i was just on cloud nine and thought i won everything, and then it took someone to say, hey, move over. heather s second place overall finish in the 600 meters
heather, herself, can t believe how she did it. i don t know really where it came from. everyone says how gutsy it was and how hard it must have been to finish a race like that. honestly, i think it s the most effortless i ve ever felt in a race. it was truly like i was lifted up on angel wings. with the crowd still in a tizzy over her outrageous feat, heather prepares to take her spot atop the podium. that s when audrey smoot brings her back down to earth. audrey won the first heat just before heather, beating her time by slightly more than .1 second. but she didn t fall down. she s like, um, i actually won. sorry. had to scoot on over to take second there. it was a funny thing that i was just on cloud nine and thought i won everything, and then it took someone to say, hey, move over. heather s second place
heather prepares to take her spot atop the ceremony podium. that s when audrey smoot of indi indiana university brings her back down to earth. audrey won the first heat just before heather s, besting heather s time by slightly more than 1/10 of a second, but she didn t fall down. she s like, i actually won. i was like, oh, sorry, i ll just scoot on over to take second there. it was just one of those funny things, that i was just on cloud nine and thought i d won everything, and it took someone to say, hey, move over! heather s second place overall finish in the 600 meters adds a crucial eight points to minnesota s team total. eight points was exactly the margin of our victory for the team that day. so it s kind of a happy coincidence that if i hadn t gotten up and finished the race, we would have lost or tied. heather graduates from the university of minnesota in december 2009, but coach wilson