Personal Narrative: Running A Half Marathon

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August 22, 2015, a day to be forever marked with blood, sweat, tears, but most importantly, triumph. That day was race day. The day when all my hours of grueling training would face the ultimate challenge. The day where I would be able to identify myself as a runner. There’s only one problem with that—I’m not a runner; I’m a tennis player.
So why on Earth would I subject myself to hours of training for a sport I don’t even do? For that we have to go back to March 24, 2015, the day of tennis tryouts. Being that sophomore year was my first year at Marquette High, making the varsity tennis team was a huge deal for me. As tryouts concluded, my chances for making varsity were exceptionally high, for I had beaten two returning varsity players as well as two others fighting for my varsity …show more content…

Since Frank told me to work on my stamina, I concluded that the best way to do this was to run a half marathon. I knew that running a half marathon would be the most brutal test of athleticism I would ever face in my life, but if it meant making varsity tennis, I wouldn’t reconsider running for even a second.
Upon making this resolve, I looked up a list of upcoming half marathons in which I found one: Madison scheduled for late August. At that point I had five months to train. Foolish as I am, I didn’t start until August 1st. I didn’t think I needed the previous four months, because I had wildly overestimated my athleticism; for after running three miles on that hot and humid first day of August, I wished to collapse. I wanted to surrender the challenge. But that’s not who I am. I set an objective and I was going to achieve that objective.
As a result I devised a three week training plan to methodically guarantee my prosperity. The first week, despite its being the least amount of cumulative miles, was the most arduous. The farthest distance I travelled was five miles, not even half of the distance I was projecting to run only two weeks

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