I experienced failure last year during my cross country season. It was my first year of cross country and my coaches thought that I was going to be able to get a 5k time in the nineteens by the end of the season. I thought that I would be able to get or at least come close to that time. This was not the case though, I suffered from a burnout and formed a stress fracture soon after. Finding out that I had a stress fracture was heartbreaking. I was very upset and didn’t understand why it had to happen to me. I knew that my season was over and that I wasn’t going to be able to accomplish my goal. My season ended with a 5K time of 21.18 minutes. This is considered a good time, but far from what I wanted. I couldn’t run for about three months
