AnonymousstressfractureComment

It's not about how you start, but how you finish.

AnonymousstressfractureComment
It's not about how you start, but how you finish.

Going into my sophomore year during the summer I fractured my fibula. I was in crutches for 8 weeks. Right after I got cleared to do things again my basketball coach suggested I run cross country to get in shape for basketball and to help stabilize my leg back to the way it was. My first cross country practice we did hill repeats and I couldn't finish. The first meet I got heat exhaustion and had to get an iv in the back of an ambulance. My time was a 21.34. The rest of the season was tough. My best time my sophomore year was a 18.36. My junior year I started off with a head start running in the summer and doing workouts with my coach. That year I took 13th at regionals and qualified for states with a 17.19. This year I'm a senior. This whole year I haven't placed outside of the top ten running high 17's all year. I have 3 more meets left of my high school career. I have never put in so much time and effort to one sport. My first practice I didn't even finish, my last practice I'm not going to want to finish. During cross country I have made friends I will never forget. I have 3 more meets to show what I can do. I started from being second to last seed, to being first seed since halfway through my sophomore year. If you put in the time and effort you can do anything you want. You can bet I'm gonna leave everything I have at MIS in Brooklyn November 4th.

- Anonymous

AnonymousComment

Remaining hopeful even in the darkest of times.

I’m a senior in high school, a two time state champion in cross country and the reining 800m state champion for class 6A in Kansas, one of the top 800 meter runners in the state of Kansas for highschool, I’m committed to a college on a scholarship to continue my running career, and I’m surrounded by amazing family and friends. I was coming off a great junior year and incredible summer.

AnonymousComment
Remaining hopeful even in the darkest of times.
AnonymouskneeinjuryComment

Running Sucks... Or so I thought.

Running sucks. Or so I thought. Since my dad and my older siblings ran it was pretty much expected of me to run too, so when I was I middle school I hopped on the train and oh boy was it tough. I constantly struggled and quite honestly I hated it. I was the slowest person on the girls team during cross country (granted I would still finish top 20 most races) and I even had the chance to go to the state meet but I didn’t take it because I knew that I’d probably finished around the last girl.

AnonymouskneeinjuryComment
Running Sucks... Or so I thought.
AnonymousComment

Sacrificing the gift.

My cross country career started early- 4th grade to be precise. It was the only sport a 4th grader could play at my private school and I decided to give it a shot. Naturally it was only a mile but I trained hard, ran all summer, and got second place in my first race. The first place competitor, red faced and out of breath, was mere steps in front of me

AnonymousComment
Sacrificing the gift.