Personal Essay About Track/Cross Country Practices

I almost passed out and died this week. Almost after every school day I have Track/Cross Country practice, and normally these practices can get tremendously hard. To put it into perspective, on average we run forty-eight miles, and normally these daily workouts can be extremely exhausting not just physically, but also mentally. For example, workouts we have done in the past consist of, mile repeats, an eight mile run, and two-hundred meter repeats.
When I had got to the track for practice, I was in an jovial mood. Only to find out that I had shown up to run one of the hardest workouts of the year. The workout that was given to us was five-minute and twenty-second mile pace and not only was that a quick speed, but we had to run three in a row with

The metal pain the runner feels when they figure out that they have to run a hard workout is one of the most horrendous feelings in the world. It’s like the feeling you get up to give a speech, and you didn’t research anything and completely unprepared.
Approaching the line with my fellow runners, I felt helpless, thought to myself Am I even going to be able to sustain the pace? Can I even do half?. Coach yells that the boys are up first to run. My heart jumps and my mind prepares for the hurricanes of pain and well needed motivation. “ Clock on! “, coach yells. We take off at a extremely fast speed with adrenaline overtaking my mind and body. The pain felt in the first mile wasn’t much, and rarely even noticed. However, the metal pain, knowing that there was another one coming in only a few minutes, was terrible. As we take off for the second mile, my body hurts immediately, screaming for me to just stop. All I could think was the countdown of the laps. One, two, three, finally on the fourth lap. We finished the second. My body