Personal Narrative: My First Running Events

When I was in the 7th grade I decide to do track. They taught us what we were going to do. Like what are we going to do at the meets and practice.
During practice we had to run for about 10 minutes. Then after we ran the girls and the boys got in a big circle and all did about 10 different stretches together for about 10 seconds. After that we did something called splits which is when everyone split up and did there own thing like the long distance runners had to run for a long time around the school. I was a sprinter and a relay so I had to deal with passing off and getting the button while running. I also had to work with stilts I think that's what they are called well I had to put them so they felt comfortable and be easier to run out of. We did this about every practice. …show more content…
First was the girl running events and the boys field events I didn't do any field events so I had half the meet to do anything. The first running events were always girls hurdles than boys hurdles so they could take the hurdles off the field and not have to put them back up. My first meet I had the 100 meter dash and the 200 meter dash so my events were one of the first running events. If I remember right I got first in the 100 meter dash and 2nd on the 200 meter dash Xzavier beat me in the 200. I'm pretty sure the kids we were racing they said some of them were in 5th or 6th grade. My time in the 100 was about 13