Hey, blogettes! We got a card as a family that can get us into the local college's gym to work out and stay fit. I am going to do a lot of running on their track and use their hill simulator to get ready for next cross country season because I stunk big time when it came to hills. Distance was fine but the hills killed me. Distance also killed me when I didn't have a set pace, so I went out too fast, and didn't have enough energy to kick it in and have an amazing close to the race. I like that my last meet was so amazing. I like how I had that thrill that I got during every race that was special. I want to go into this next cross country season as a threat just like my whole team was this year, placing as high as we did during meets. We were always in the top eight and every team knew that when our bus pulled up that they were going to have to really fight and go out there and give it their all if they didn't want us to get first.
You could totally tell that the mood changed and the races became serious when we got off the bus, and set up our base camp. You could tell that people were spending extra time getting warmed up and walking the course and really talking over their plans of attack when we walked by because it became more real like one of the top dog teams were actually here at the meet because at that time we were the state champs. Now we are just runner's up but a threat just the same since we lost the first place title by a point. It was close. I'm hoping that I don't get injured this year so that I can go to state too. I was going to go this year but I got injured in the last normal meet of the season. I want to go to state this year and leave my legacy and put it all out there, and end middle school with a bang, because I don't know if I will ever get the chance to go to state again. I want to bring home that title and make it ours again. I want to make it something to be proud of.
Watch out people because our team is going to be a threat next year because we have our mind set on going all the way and getting that title again because we know what top dogs feels like and we want that feeling again. It looks too good on us to be on anyone else. It is our trait and not theirs. I'm going to do a lot of training on my own, to make sure that I kick some butt in track as well and show people that you can go from not being that much of a runner to a running star who has the best thoughts and feels the best when she is running. The world is yours so shape it and try new things. Don't be afraid to just step out of your box and try. I am happy that I did because it showed me something that I never really thought I would care for or like. It also taught me a lot of things about myself and how much I could really take. It was a challenge, but it was nice to go and run and just act like the course was a journal and I was putting all my feelings out into it, or the course was a bully and I was beating the crap out of it even though it was the wrong thing to do if it was a real person.
Call me weird but whenever I run distance, I feel like I could do it forever really because I feel so free. I feel like I have found myself and my calling to be a better person. I feel so happy when I run even though it hurts. I feel like all my problems just slip away and that everything is perfect when I run even though my life is like this huge mess. I feel like I am on top of the world and a superstar when I run, but when I finish, it is also the best feeling ever because I have finished something that people have told me that I may never be able to do or can't do because I would never be good enough nor have the guts to at least step out and try it because I was too shy. Well, ha ha to you people, because I just did it. I not only tried it but I stuck with it and I loved it. It was the best feeling that could have ever happened. I can't even start to describe to you how amazing running feels.
When you are running at a meet, you don't know what place you are in even though the place never matters, or the time that you are running. All you know is that you are going fast, and you are lapping the people still sitting on the couch, or doing another sport. All you know is that you have this free feeling inside of you, and you run a little bit faster because you sense someone either gaining on you or the pain is kind of killing you. Distance running is not a sport for sissies because you will get hurt, and running distance and hills and doing the stuff that we do does get painful at times, and it is not a very glamourous thing either. You are a sweaty hot mess after a meet or workout and you want food. You can have a lot of healthy food too because you have earned it thanks to the big hard workout that you had just put in, and in high school this is even more true according to my sister because it really gets more intense as time goes on.
No comments:
Post a Comment