Personal Narrative Middle School Race

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I sat in a hot, stuffy school bus filled with nervous middle school kids. It was a Saturday morning around 8 am. I was sitting next to my friend Adam, he was on his phone probably texting about the huge meet that was about to happen. It was a cross country meet and there was supposed to be over sixty schools participating in it. Even though there were going to be so many schools I was excited. This was a chance for me to prove to my team that I could get top 20 for sixth grade racing with over six hundred kids. The bus started slowing and I noticed we were at a street light. I expected to just see a normal intersection, but there were at least ten or twelve buses at every turn trying to get into the school that the meet was in. It was then that it hit me, this race was going to be far from easy.

We stopped at the sidewalk of a normal looking middle school and unloaded the team's luggage, snacks of all kinds with tents and blankets to keep us occupied and healthy in the time leading up to the races. The races weren’t a short event, the races went 6th grade girls, 6th grade boys, 7th grade girls, 7th grade boys, 8th grade girls and finally 8th grade boys. All of the races were about 10-20 minutes long, …show more content…

I barely noticed the different turns the track took. For the length of the valley there was no shade but it was just a four hundred so it wouldn’t be that bad. After that, there was a bend to the left for about two hundred meters funneling into a path in the woods. The trail in the woods was uneven and filled with roots, there would be a lot of tripping on that narrow path. As the path in the woods ended, we run up a small but steep gravel slope, then we would run about a quarter mile in the valley. The end strip of the race had small flags and banners on either side, it had a bunch of twists and turns and ended with a large blue mat that would detect your timer and record your

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