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Hey, blogettes! It's Smiles here! I am so sorry I have not written in quite awhile. I have been so busy with cross country it isn't funny, and yes I am doing fairly well this year even with a bad knee and the pain that it causes sometimes. I am super nervous for tomorrow's meet which is at Cascade that I can't seem to fall asleep which is bad because I need energy for the meet tomorrow. I am also excited because I get to compete against some of my friends from honor choir there. I am mainly worried about the finish.
         Last year I did not get to finish the race. I was in the back of an ambulance on my way to the hospital to get stitches in my lower back because some girl ran right over me when I was off to the side in the bottom of the pit tying my shoes. I said that I was fine to the paramedics and wanted to finish because we were 500 meters away, another reason why you know I do cross country is that I am freakishly good at estimating distances, but anyways back on topic now, but they said no because my back was bleeding pretty good because it was a deep cut because she was wearing a longer type of spike,which is now illegal I believe for cross country, and they said that I could have spinal cord damage too because they didn't know how far the spike went in even though I had moved from my back to an upright position just fine, and they saw me do that. I was told by the corner guard that the runner got who radioed to them to get there told me to stay like I was until medical advice came so I laid face down in mud for like five minutes with blood coming out of my back and the crowd making these very nerve racking comments, and I am just down there classically worrying sbout my finish and how I would gain momentum to finish awesome. Of course it could have been an accident because it was raining and this meet is all hills and she could have fell coming down the hill and slid into my lower back on accident but I mean she totally like flattened me onto the ground because I had mud in places that I never want it to be there again. She then went right on running without bothering to see if I was okay. Some other runner behind her alerted the paramedics because when she passed me I was still flat in shock mainly because of what just happened. See above for how that all turned out.
Our team ended up placing first at that meet but I think that they heard what had happened to me because I saw a push from some if them from the videos that people could take of what was going on and mainly the finish and a lot of them said to get well soon for me which was nice and some of the other runners just rallied around mount vernon lisbon because it is scary any time that one of us is hurt enough to the point where the ambulance has to be used to take a person into the hospital. Besides some kids on my team just came out and were right to the point and just said let's win this thing for me because I was in the hospital and I wasn't able to get the finish that I wanted to so badly and was so close to, but was too badly injured for the paramedics to agree to let me finish. I was heavily bandaged in the pit and was helped up and onto the stretcher because they didn't want me to get ran over again because I was moving a little bit slower and I was thinking of honestly walking or crawling to the finish if I had to anyways with my injury but they vetoed that and I am still mad at them.  We are like a family or at least most of us are. A lot of oeople think that girl meant to run over me to better her place because she was not a good runner, but if she did I forgive her and congratulate her because that course is insanely rough and she finished it. She did better than I did but there again she also hurt me, and my team still ended up placing better than hers. I hope that she isn't there this year I think that she was an eighth grader because last year's eighth graders said that she clothes lined a person to get a better place in the meet when they were seventh graders. I honestly had to do a double take to see if I had heard them right I mean that is just sad that you would do that.
Anyways I am going to see if I can't sleep now because I am going to need it with it being such a big day for me tomorrow, anyways wish me luck and pray for me because I am super nervous and hopefully this time I will end up at the finish line and not a hospital ambulance in need of stitches. I am hoping not to race that chick this year either and that she has the guts to apologize to me because if she had went in deep enough with her spike she could have changed my whole entire life by damaging my spinal cord, I would really hate her then because running is pretty much my whole life. Running and god is what I live for pretty much except in reverse order. I am also communications in my school student council so I will get busy with that job too.