Race-Personal Narrative

It was a rough cross-country season, I had trained hard all summer only to get worse 5k times than ever before. It never seemed like putting in the work in practice was worth it, my hard work in the summer did not seem to pay off so I didn’t see a point in putting in anymore effort. I dreaded every minute of each practice and race. I was constantly upset with myself and would take it out on others. My mom had noticed my frustration and knew what would get me interested in racing again, something that I thought was worth working hard for. My mom had told me that if my 5k was under 22 minutes or I was one of the top two varsity runners she would buy me a beta fish. It seems like a lot of fuss over nothing, but to me it was important and it was something I was willing to push myself for. I came to the realization that motivation should not come from things that can be bought, so I decided to run for a different reason. I wanted to to do this for myself, I wanted everyone to see me do something they didn’t think that I could accomplish anymore, and I wanted to do this for my mom because I knew how much joy it brought her to see me run. All day I was anxious to run because I knew …show more content…
I knew from the start that I could accomplish my goal. When the race started, I started smart, I knew not to start too fast because their was plenty of time to speed up. I didn’t start with Shelby because she would tend to start off a little too fast so I kept at a good pace knowing I could catch up to her, because I still had plenty of energy left. However, I knew the beginning of the race would not be the hard part, it would be when I was tired and my whole body ached, but I would have to keep running