"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Failure is inexorable. However, failure is a time to build upon the groundwork that you have laid in order to succeed.
A time when I was unsuccessful was the beginning of my U12 ski season. A goal that I had set for myself was to qualify for the New England U12 Ski Championships, called the Piche, in my second year of ski racing.
This was a lofty goal. Being on the smaller side, gravity was not in my favor. Weight is a competitive advantage in any ski race. It gives the essential aspect of a successful run, speed. Furthermore, it was only my second year of ski racing. This gave me a great disadvantage against the experienced 6-year race skiers. I was asking myself to be top ten in the state in my second year of skiing. To many this may seem a little outrageous. However, my competitive nature allows me to set such …show more content…
I struggled to hold a 34th place finish in my first qualifying race of the season! I was mad. Hot mad. Red hot mad. I could not stand this performance. I thought to myself that I would build upon all of my training and prior race experience and work hard to succeed in the future. Every day from that moment on I trained. I trained each day until the end of 7-hour long practices. I took so many runs down the practice course that the coach told me to take a break. “Skip a day” he said. I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. I knew that if I let off my training; I would slip, and fall. I would destroy my ski season, and so I didn’t take a break. I kept training because I believed in myself accomplishing my goal, and my work paid off. The rest of that season’s qualifiers, I placed 3rd out of 68 racers in the second qualifying race, a giant slalom, my favorite event. I was determined that my physical size and my mere two years of experience would not hold me back and I had qualified for the New Hampshire State
Failure is inexorable. However, failure is a time to build upon the groundwork that you have laid in order to succeed.
A time when I was unsuccessful was the beginning of my U12 ski season. A goal that I had set for myself was to qualify for the New England U12 Ski Championships, called the Piche, in my second year of ski racing.
This was a lofty goal. Being on the smaller side, gravity was not in my favor. Weight is a competitive advantage in any ski race. It gives the essential aspect of a successful run, speed. Furthermore, it was only my second year of ski racing. This gave me a great disadvantage against the experienced 6-year race skiers. I was asking myself to be top ten in the state in my second year of skiing. To many this may seem a little outrageous. However, my competitive nature allows me to set such …show more content…
I struggled to hold a 34th place finish in my first qualifying race of the season! I was mad. Hot mad. Red hot mad. I could not stand this performance. I thought to myself that I would build upon all of my training and prior race experience and work hard to succeed in the future. Every day from that moment on I trained. I trained each day until the end of 7-hour long practices. I took so many runs down the practice course that the coach told me to take a break. “Skip a day” he said. I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. I knew that if I let off my training; I would slip, and fall. I would destroy my ski season, and so I didn’t take a break. I kept training because I believed in myself accomplishing my goal, and my work paid off. The rest of that season’s qualifiers, I placed 3rd out of 68 racers in the second qualifying race, a giant slalom, my favorite event. I was determined that my physical size and my mere two years of experience would not hold me back and I had qualified for the New Hampshire State