MOHAMMED AHMED
needed to start moving up. "I just said to myself, 'Stick with him, stick with him.' He was making moves for me.'' Summarizing the race, Byrne said, "Mo wasn't thinking about time, he was just thinking about beating people. He says the first time he looked at the clock was with about a lap to go.'' Beyond his obvious commitment to training
and his competitive fire — "I love racing; when you put so much into training, the end result is trying to race'' — why is Ahmed so good at what he does?
"I don't know,'' he said with a shrug. "It's kind of a mystery still.'' Not really; not when you consider his makeup. "You can't second-guess yourself,'' said Ahmed, a junior from St. Catherines, Ontario.
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"I stayed in the back and I found him (Der- rick) there, too. That kind of reassured me," said Ahmed of Stan- ford's Chris Derrick. "I just said to myself, 'Stick with him, stick with him.' He was mak- ing moves for me.''
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