“How much further until the finish line?” During a Cross Country meet you will find yourself asking this question quite a bit. You may think that a 5k is simple work, you’ve never run up and down hills for 30 minutes straight. Though these things may try and keep you down, you just keep pushing ahead until the next mile point. While running you seem to be in a whole new state of mind and determination. All thoughts disappear and all you can do is run. First I will explain how a Cross Country meet goes. The beginning race is the Junior High girls then the Junior High boys. Sometimes the JH boys and girls will race together to make the meet go faster. Although most of the races are separate. The youngsters only have to run either a 2 mile or
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We all cheer for every single runner, whether they’re on our team or not. That’s just what we do here, we make sure everyone is having as much fun as possible. Let me tell you from personal experience, hearing someone from another team yell “Here we go Pillager, only 1000 left!” is probably one of the best feelings during a race. Don’t get me wrong, our runners are extremely competitive. You know people from other schools that you desperately want to beat, and boy do we show it. Passing is our best form of competition because it shows who is willing to take the risk to get ahead. We practice these strategies and now here’s the day, we finally get to show what we’ve …show more content…
You run because it’s how you find peace in this crazy world. When you’re out there on the course, you are distracted and relieved at the same time. There’s no other feeling like it. You have come so far and worked so hard to do this. Why hold back now? Get your best time, pass that girl who was faster than you, and cheer for every other team. Call me crazy but I love running. And if I had the chance to start doing this earlier, I’d do it in a heartbeat. The moral of the story is, take chances and do the crazy things in life like joining cross country. I promise you won’t regret
We all cheer for every single runner, whether they’re on our team or not. That’s just what we do here, we make sure everyone is having as much fun as possible. Let me tell you from personal experience, hearing someone from another team yell “Here we go Pillager, only 1000 left!” is probably one of the best feelings during a race. Don’t get me wrong, our runners are extremely competitive. You know people from other schools that you desperately want to beat, and boy do we show it. Passing is our best form of competition because it shows who is willing to take the risk to get ahead. We practice these strategies and now here’s the day, we finally get to show what we’ve …show more content…
You run because it’s how you find peace in this crazy world. When you’re out there on the course, you are distracted and relieved at the same time. There’s no other feeling like it. You have come so far and worked so hard to do this. Why hold back now? Get your best time, pass that girl who was faster than you, and cheer for every other team. Call me crazy but I love running. And if I had the chance to start doing this earlier, I’d do it in a heartbeat. The moral of the story is, take chances and do the crazy things in life like joining cross country. I promise you won’t regret