The roar of the engine sends my heart racing as I pull out on to the track, one lap around and we are off, trucks at my side as we glide around the turns. The slick dirt pulling my back end around I move my hands, my automatic controls, the only thing keeping me from spinning out. It’s funny really because clichés aren’t my thing, however, at times idioms are just the thing to describe a situation or time period in one’s life, for instance the saying that “life is a roller coaster” couldn’t be more fitting for my life. The ups and downs, the highs and the lows, the twists and turns, life is just one big adrenaline rush and at times I feel I’m a junking, addicted to life.
At age two I began dancing and I loved every minute of it, at age five I began playing soccer and I thought I knew what my future held however, year after year the injuries kept coming. I kept trying, dreams of high school soccer and Broadway kept me going. Eventually a doctor forced me to choose; soccer or dance, …show more content…
And after failing to make the soccer team my sophomore year, my race coach decided it was time to move up to something bigger and faster, we decided on dirt track racing in the stock truck division because it was different just like me. Moving up meant I had to find sponsors, my favorite sponsor happens to be the small town barbeque shack because he is a part of my community and it is incredible to feel the communities support. I also had to get to work on my truck, it was a lot of hard work and long hours with two men who have impacted my life greatly. Donny Townsend and Terry had both grown up in the racing world so it was a large learning curve to understanding what they were talking about and what their slang meant. Now, they are both important mentors to me and they have strongly influenced who I am
At age two I began dancing and I loved every minute of it, at age five I began playing soccer and I thought I knew what my future held however, year after year the injuries kept coming. I kept trying, dreams of high school soccer and Broadway kept me going. Eventually a doctor forced me to choose; soccer or dance, …show more content…
And after failing to make the soccer team my sophomore year, my race coach decided it was time to move up to something bigger and faster, we decided on dirt track racing in the stock truck division because it was different just like me. Moving up meant I had to find sponsors, my favorite sponsor happens to be the small town barbeque shack because he is a part of my community and it is incredible to feel the communities support. I also had to get to work on my truck, it was a lot of hard work and long hours with two men who have impacted my life greatly. Donny Townsend and Terry had both grown up in the racing world so it was a large learning curve to understanding what they were talking about and what their slang meant. Now, they are both important mentors to me and they have strongly influenced who I am