A couple days before the race, I said to my boyfriend, “What if I win and you aren’t there to see my race?!”. My boyfriend, Grant, was getting ready to leave to hike the Pacific Crest Trail and was not going to watch my race because he had to meet his hiking partner to go over the final details of the hike. I was running at the Oregon Relays, an outdoor track meet that takes place at the historic Hayward Field. Hayward Field at the University of Oregon is a famous track stadi