Going back two years ago.It was a nice sunny morning in Boston, Massachusetts. I was visiting family there. I go to Boston every two years. It was our last day there. I was packing my stuff in the room I stayed in, in the beach house. My uncle owns a beach house out there and lets us stay. So I was packing and my cousin Henry walks into the room.” This is where I usually sleep when me and my friends come up here,” he explains to me.” Do you have any goals for this year or next year?” he asks me. I tell him,” Well,I have been trying to get my mile under six minutes.” He pauses for a moment. He starts talking,”Wanna make a bet?” I tell him,”Why not. What about?”He started to smile at me. He walked out of the room. He came back into the room with a piece of paper and a pencil.” If you get your mile under six minutes…...I’ll come out to Colorado for say a week.”I am froze in shock,excitement and joy!
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For something I am gonna do? I will…..One year passes…… It is 2017 and I’m at a track meet I run for the Platte River Track Club. I’m getting ready to run the mile, this mile will choose if Henry comes out to Colorado.It’s so hot I feel like I’m stuck in a volcano! I’m at the starting line. My best friend, Alex, there cheering for me. I hear the gun go off. I start with an easy jog. The first lap goes by in 60 seconds. My second lap just as fast. The third lap even
For something I am gonna do? I will…..One year passes…… It is 2017 and I’m at a track meet I run for the Platte River Track Club. I’m getting ready to run the mile, this mile will choose if Henry comes out to Colorado.It’s so hot I feel like I’m stuck in a volcano! I’m at the starting line. My best friend, Alex, there cheering for me. I hear the gun go off. I start with an easy jog. The first lap goes by in 60 seconds. My second lap just as fast. The third lap even