Running has been apart of my life ever since I can remember, my mom and my grandmother have inspired me so much with this sport. It all started when I won my first race in third grade, that was the moment when I really fell in love with running. My sophomore year of cross country is when my running career came to a stop because of my shin hurting, at first I thought it was just shin splints because I had been running hard for the two weeks prior. Then the pain lasted for three weeks and during that time I was icing and doing all different exercises to strengthen my legs. My coach found out and decided to pull me from our first meet of that season and he made me ride the bike for that week, I was devastated because I was finally training
