Long Beach Poly’s Camille Lindsay ready to run with the best at CIF-SS Cross Country Finals

LONG BEACH >> If Long Beach Poly inferior transverse state runner Camille Lindsay wants to execute her goals, she knows she’s going to person to vie against the champion runners successful the CIF Southern Section.

Lindsay is the No. 1 runner connected Poly’s girls varsity transverse state squad and successful the Moore League. She volition beryllium starring her teammates and besides racing to execute her idiosyncratic goals successful Division 1 of the CIF Southern Cross Country Championships astatine Mt. SAC successful Walnut connected Saturday, Nov. 20.

In bid to suffice for adjacent week’s CIF State conscionable successful Fresno, Lindsay volition person to decorativeness arsenic 1 of the apical 5 individuals who aren’t qualifying for the authorities conscionable arsenic portion of a team.

This volition beryllium Lindsay’s 2nd consecutive play moving astatine Mt. SAC. Last week she competed successful the CIF-SS prelims astatine Mt. SAC wherever the runners battled unseasonable upwind and apical competition.

“It’s been a portion since I’ve tally against girls similar that,” said Lindsay, who won the Moore League transverse state title by 36 seconds astatine Heartwell Park successful Long Beach connected Nov. 3. “I was ace blessed and ace excited to person immoderate contention and tally with those truly accelerated girls.”

This weekend, Lindsay is hoping much mild temperatures volition pb to faster performances for herself and her teammates.

“It’s been a precise agelong season,” Lindsay said. “Six months and it’s truly starring up to this race, this weekend. I’m ready.”

Meanwhile, Lindsay has faced much than her just stock of adversity recently.

In October she went into anaphylactic daze from a terrible allergic absorption to peanuts and was concisely hospitalized. She has recovered, but that acquisition has fixed her a caller position connected beingness and running.

“I deliberation it made maine recognize that everybody is quality successful a way,” Lindsay continued. “There’s going to beryllium things that you can’t control. Just moving disconnected of existent grit and bosom and being assured capable to beryllium similar well, I wasn’t doing truthful bully past week but adjacent week is going to beryllium better.

“I deliberation that’s what makes a genuinely bully athlete.”

Long Beach Poly inferior Camille Lindsay shares what she’s learned astir moving aft overcoming adversity via a wellness scarce that near her hospitalized successful the mediate of Cross Country season. Lindsay’s extremity is to suffice for @CIFState meet. @BeachVarsity #LongBeachVarsityReport pic.twitter.com/hJTIxejCPC

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Championship racing 

Running unsocial is 1 happening but racing good against others is what volition catapult Lindsay to the adjacent level. She is good alert that it is going to instrumentality a beardown contention to decorativeness successful the apical 5 arsenic an idiosyncratic and suffice for the CIF State Championships connected Saturday, Nov. 27, astatine Fresno’s Woodward Park.

She volition apt request to tally successful the 18-minute scope oregon amended to bash that. Her manager Cameron Ford believes she has the endowment to vie with anyone.

“She would spot it arsenic an upset if she doesn’t suffice (for the authorities meet),” said Ford. “She’s going to dainty it arsenic a one-and-done. If I can’t bash it (at Mt. SAC), past I’ll person to hold until adjacent year.

“There’s a batch of value connected this. If she tin bash it this week, it volition springiness her assurance for her grooming moving guardant and her competitory quality due to the fact that this is the archetypal changeable that she gets astatine that benignant of competition, and I cognize that if she’s up for it… she’s going to bash it.”

Lindsay’s clip of 19 minutes and 13 seconds implicit the hard 3-mile people astatine Mt. SAC successful the CIF-SS prelims puts her close successful the mix, particularly since she’s tapering her training, which often makes runners consciousness caller and successful turn, tally importantly faster.

“Just being capable to spell and say, I request to drawback that miss to suffice is thing wholly antithetic than conscionable moving and racing and beating everybody by a infinitesimal and a half,” Lindsay explained.

She finished 15th wide successful the CIF-SS Division 1 prelims. Lindsay said she has thing near successful the tank.

Lindsay believes she’s much than acceptable to tally astatine the title level: “I americium acceptable to compete. Very ready.”