Cross Country Should Be Recognized Essay

Cross Country Should be Recognized From the beginning of time running has been a form of punishment. Everybody that practices a sport hates when the coach forces them to run sprints or longer distances, physically exerting themselves. The feeling after does not secede, immediately making it worse. No matter how fast or slow you run the same burning pain spreads and intensifies as if it was venom. Every sport throughout history requires physical and mental toughness but distance running referring to cross country follows the same guidelines. The most important aspect in this sport is mental toughness which allows the highest tolerance to all pain. This aspect of mental toughness isn't tested in many other sports where a play lasts fifteen seconds compared to a race where you essentially push your body to the limit for five kilometers and so on. At the start it's you against the world. The person next to you is not your …show more content…
The only possible way to get credit for what we do is to qualify for state and nobody understands how rigorous competition is in the section known as,”The section of Death.” I am not able to identify any other sport in our school that has as much talent in the regional area as our track and cross country programs. Within this region three spots are open for state and every year we battle with Mountain Brook, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, and Oak Mountain for these spots. Everybody outside this section does not have nearly the same level of talent as we do in this backbreaking section. The only major competition that our football team has is Hoover. Essentially, if every sport was put on the same level and athletes in these minority sports received credit for their performances this conflict would be resolved but for the foreseeable future neither people or the system will not change which fuels my resentment of widely publicized