As soon as I learned how relaxing the sound of my feet striking the ground was while I run, I fell in love. Every day rain or snow I find my feet running down the road for as far as I physically can. I push through the days when it feels like I can barely go one more step, telling myself just one more mile next thing I know, that mile turns into five. Before I started running nothing seemed right, almost as if every day I was tripping over my own feet. The day I started to run I started chasing every goal and as my strength grew stronger so did my determination. I was not only strengthening my endurance I was building on my mind and myself. Due to my passion I decided to join the cross country team.
The first day of cross country was rough, as training went on and races came up I just kept improving. What I wanted I worked towards, taking each step carefully at a time. I have never been the fastest runner but what is most important to me is what I learned through cross country. One race I was running next to a blind runner. The course we were on was curvy,
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The obstacle my junior year was balancing an AP class, sports, and a job. I was able to do so even though some days were extremely difficult, those days were the ones when I found myself running anywhere I could. Whether it be the treadmill at school or my favorite trail down the street from my house. It took me a few months but I finally got better at my time management and found a smooth routine. My friends looked up to me telling me they wish they were as determined as I. My best friend always tells me she wouldn't be as far as she is if it wasn't for me pushing and encouraging her every step of the way. I will continue to bring this encouragement to all around me at all times. I believe an upbeat positive attitude is an easy thing to share and pass on, which would be a great addition to your
I am now officially in my Senior year of Cross Country , and am close to the end of my season. My first race of this year though was a big accomplishment for me, because I hadn`t been able to run. When I ran that race though it made me just so happy I was able to finish it, I was`nt happy with the time, but there is always time for improvement. I was glad to be racing again and being apart of the team again. I believe that my injuries were a barrier in my way, but they did not stop my sports career.
Many people argue that cross country is one of the hardest, most physically challenging sports there is out there. A lot of people shudder at the idea of running two or more miles on hilly, steep, muddy and rocky trails. The funny thing about that is that is not even the worst part. In order to run two to four miles in races, one must prepare. “How do you prepare your body to run this long?” one might ask. That is where my argument comes in. Being a cross country runner of four years, I have seen, done and heard of a plethora of ways and strategies to become a successful cross country runner. Some are outlandish, ridiculous and just plain out stupid; but some are also rewarding, beneficial and worth the hard work. Personally, I feel like having a good strong balanced diet, learning how to pace yourself and maintain a positive, motivational attitude and the key ingredients in being a successful cross country runner.
I signed up to run track in the spring and went to summer conditioning for cross country. That’s when my coaches, teammates, and myself noticed that my running has improved significantly from when I first started. I knew that I had to work hard my senior year to achieve my goals for running. Running is a mental sport. The workouts I had to do were brutally painful and I had stay positive throughout the run because I know the training I had to do will help me during a race.
It has brought me in contact with people that I otherwise would have never spoken to. Additionally, no value can be placed on the countless lessons it has taught me. Olympic marathon runner Meb Keflezighi states, “Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging, and present obstacles; however, if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best.” To sum things up, running has taught me many lessons, and it is one of the main reasons I am the person that I am
I was raised with the mindset that if you are going to do something, you might as well be proud of it. I want to set goals for my performance and attempt as much as I can reach my goals.
"To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like" Mike Gafka. Gafka’s quote summarizes my Junior year as I had to grew accustom to many difficulties, face many challenges, and struggles such as time management as well as how I decided to take three Ap classes during my Junior year. Which were Ap US History, Physics, and English not to mention having a Math 140 zero period class and a Network+ computer course outside of school which made me have a busy schedule. Nevertheless I learned and gain a lot of new knowledge throughout my Junior year.
I joined my school’s cross country team in the summer. At the beginning we performed pre-season workouts. The training was tough, but my proud personality and the very thought of what I had to gain kept me motivated and helped me push through the pain. Every time I felt like giving up or quitting, I would say to myself, “This pain is only temporary; remember that the reward will be permanent, and it will be worth the pain that I endure today.” I was able to push through the
As a distance runner for the Buena Vista University Cross Country and Track team, in Storm Lake, Iowa, my experience with low mileage training and high mileage training came out wit...
Running is something that I pursue that always seems to confound people. So many times I have been
Running has always been that sport that I took advantage of to let everything go and to use it to express my anger and to strengthen my mind to keep fighting through the hard times. I wasn’t confident in who I was and when someone asked me who I am, it would take me awhile to really analyze who I really was, what makes me, me. But, the problem wasn’t that I did not know, the problem was that I was not confident in who I am, I had a negative mindset of myself since no one expected anything good from me and I took it to heart. Realizing that I had to heal from the feelings that I was feeling, it was as if I hated and loved myself, I would lift myself up and at the same time put myself down. I was experiencing many things that I just wrote them down, and soon I wrote lyrics everytime I felt sad or happy I sang, improvised and just wrote them down on paper. I also started to use art as a form to express myself through those feelings specifically
I was never really exceptional at running even now I still can’t do shorter runs I think longer runs are easier than shorter distances. Longer run are easier on me because I can mentally tell myself that “ I can do this,”
As the hot wind blew over the runners on the start line, I started to jump up and down in preparation for the imminent race. We were at the first cross country meet of my junior year, and nerves were abundant. I readied myself at the start line and I began considering my success in past years. The first two years of high school passed quickly, and I tried to recall the rapid improvement I experienced. The coming year was different; with other commitments to consider, I was worried my running career would suffer.
Due to having to run more than than a mile, I lost my motivation to run because of how much I would be running. As the year went on my run times were all pretty consistent and were around 10 minutes which is significantly more that i had hoped for. I hope to improve my mile time in the future by increasing my cardiovascular endurance which will allow me to run for a longer period of
There have been many things that I have learned from running track. In the spring of 2015, while I ran track, I encountered many obstacles that transformed me. Each of these experiences trained me into becoming an improved athlete. One of the most difficult trials I faced put me to the test in many ways. Even though I was unsuccessful, I was able to learn from this experience.
We finish what we start. This was the motto that kept me going during the strenuous training period for a marathon. But prior to that, I must confess, I wasn’t an athlete. I was never interested in playing sports, except for recreational badminton. During gym class, I would walk three quarters of the time when it time for the dreaded mile run. I preferred staying indoors and sitting on the couch and watch movies. The first time I had heard about a marathon training program, called Dreamfar, in my school, I thought to myself, what kind of crazy person would want to run a marathon? Never did I realize, eight months later, I would be that crazy person.