My First Meet
Bang! Holy crap it is starting, I have to get moving. That was my first thought when I heard the starting gun. This all was my first cross country meet at Sanborn, Iowa on September 18, 2017. My parents were not able to come because my mom was sick. The whole cross country team was there and so were all of their friends. No one showed up to watch me so I ran without worrying about what they were thinking of me. This was a very important race to me because it was the first time I was running for competition.
I went out for cross country so that I could run with people my age instead of on my own, but I never thought I would stay out for cross country because at first I was like, this is dumb why did I do this. But as the season went …show more content…
Running is hard, it takes an immense amount of strength to cross any finish line. Quite like a road race, there will always be a mad dash from the starting line. Just because two runners sprint out to the front doesn’t mean you should run up there with them. There are many runners who are new to pacing themselves and they will go out and continue hard, only to crash and burn a mile later. You need be smart about you race. To avoid getting swallowed up by the craziness, get out fast for the few bunch of meters, then settle in to your race pace. You’ll soon be passing those runners who went out too quickly. It doesn’t matter if you’re one of the fastest runners or one of the slowest, you will always need to know the general route of the cross-country course. First, it will help with pacing. If you know where you are, you know where the hills will be or when to start your final push to the finish line. You also want to know the course because there’s always a small chance that you’ll get separated from the pack and need to know your way. You don’t want to run an extra mile because you went the wrong way, and you definitely don’t want to get disqualified. Know where you’re
Bang! Holy crap it is starting, I have to get moving. That was my first thought when I heard the starting gun. This all was my first cross country meet at Sanborn, Iowa on September 18, 2017. My parents were not able to come because my mom was sick. The whole cross country team was there and so were all of their friends. No one showed up to watch me so I ran without worrying about what they were thinking of me. This was a very important race to me because it was the first time I was running for competition.
I went out for cross country so that I could run with people my age instead of on my own, but I never thought I would stay out for cross country because at first I was like, this is dumb why did I do this. But as the season went …show more content…
Running is hard, it takes an immense amount of strength to cross any finish line. Quite like a road race, there will always be a mad dash from the starting line. Just because two runners sprint out to the front doesn’t mean you should run up there with them. There are many runners who are new to pacing themselves and they will go out and continue hard, only to crash and burn a mile later. You need be smart about you race. To avoid getting swallowed up by the craziness, get out fast for the few bunch of meters, then settle in to your race pace. You’ll soon be passing those runners who went out too quickly. It doesn’t matter if you’re one of the fastest runners or one of the slowest, you will always need to know the general route of the cross-country course. First, it will help with pacing. If you know where you are, you know where the hills will be or when to start your final push to the finish line. You also want to know the course because there’s always a small chance that you’ll get separated from the pack and need to know your way. You don’t want to run an extra mile because you went the wrong way, and you definitely don’t want to get disqualified. Know where you’re