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Tifu by getting lost at a cross country meet

I (15f) had regionals Today in cross country. I had run at this course before. The first time I had been tailing my teammate up until the last half mile. I honestly wasn't paying attention to anything but her. I was planning on getting 26 minutes or faster for the meet Today.

I ran the first loop fine, once again, following someone. I was set to run a time somewhere between 26 and 27 minutes.

The second loop, however I was not so successful. Everyone was either far ahead of me or far behind me at this point. I got to the part where you were supposed to go back into the woods. I had no clue where to go.

First I tried running in a direction that looks like a path. It was a dead end. I tried another way, and this was wrong as well.

At this point, I gave up on finding it on my own, because I didn't want to accidentally cut the course.

I spent a few minutes yelling to to the top of this hill I had run down asking where to go.

Finally some coach heard me and yelled for me to run back up the hill. He told me to follow the path then go downhill and cut into the woods the same way I had the first loop.

I then had to re-do a half mile that I had already run.

I passed a teammate, got back down the hill, and realized I didn't remember how I had gotten into the woods for the first loop.

I paused, and waited a minute or two for the teammate to catch up to ask her which way to go.

She vaguely told me the way, but I went very slowly because I wasn't sure if she was right, or if I understood her.

Finally I got to the woods.

At this point, I just ran the rest of it relatively slowly because I have a foot injury, and didn't see any reason to injure it more if I wouldn't even get a good time.

I finished with a time of 40 minutes.

My parents spent around the last 10 minutes of it extremely concerned that I had gotten injured, and were about to go try to find me.

Tl;dr got lost at a cross country meet, ruined my time, emberassed myself by seeming stupid, and worried my parents

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