Personal Narrative: Cross County

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From my last 3 years of running cross county I have learned a lot of things. One is that you should never give up, second is that if you work hard enough then you can achieve whatever you put your mind to, and third is how you can go from disliking something to loving something. How I've learned these things from cross county is when I first started cross country, my sophomore year I couldn't run to save my life. Coach would always time us on how fast we could run two miles and I would always be last and be so far behind everyone else which was quite embarrassing but I couldn't help it I had just started and I'd never ran before in my life, at my very first meet I couldn't even run the first mile and I ended up having to drop out. After that I didn't like cross county at all because I wasn't good at it and I started to not care and I would walk at practice and only run somewhat. …show more content…
I went from running a 30 minute three mile to running a 25:26 three mile and that year I got most improved. The start to my junior year of cross county wasn't all that good I hadn't ran all summer and I felt like I was back to when I first started and I was in a way it took me a while to get back into the swing of things. That year I didn't set an overall personal record on any trail which was a huge let down, but there were a few times I set a PR on the trail compared to my sophomore year times, I also got most improved that year also. The start of my senior year started off with a

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