Ethan Heinrich Prompt 81: What Hardships Did You Experience Over The Summer?
8-26-24 Per-8 Ethan Heinrich Prompt 81: What hardships did you experience over the summer?
It was a hot and sunny June 6th as well as a very looked forward to day by many of us Lane Tech students. It was the last day of school and I was about to begin a very memorable summer. Throughout the summer I learned lessons on how to overcome obstacles and learned the importance of self-restraint through unwanted pain. To begin with, it’s crucial that you understand that I love soccer and have made it a massive part of my life. Everywhere I go I think about soccer, everything I do in one way or another connects to my love and passion for the game. Soccer is my whole life and never would I have imagined that I would have to take a break from it. During the first week of summer break I caught up on sleep …show more content…
It also helped that I was outside for 7 hours a day in the sun training by myself, which made me exhausted and ready to pass out when I got home. I mean everything felt so much better after I got home between the smoothies I made and even just lying on the couch for the first time. It felt like a bag of books had been lifted off my shoulders and I could now lay in a hammock by the beach with a nice breath. Everything about life was and felt so good and beautiful. All I could do was think about how much fun I had training and think about the games I won whilst playing pickup. My mind drifted away to a paradise I feel like I could live in forever. But then all the training started to get to me. It was about 2 weeks later and just days before I was supposed to go to the Indiana University soccer camp. I was doing my usual workouts involving deadlifts and a lot of squats. This on top of all the long days of training caused me to develop patellar t in my knees as well as a slight strain in them. It was devastating the day after when I got back on the pitch and could barely run let alone
It was a hot and sunny June 6th as well as a very looked forward to day by many of us Lane Tech students. It was the last day of school and I was about to begin a very memorable summer. Throughout the summer I learned lessons on how to overcome obstacles and learned the importance of self-restraint through unwanted pain. To begin with, it’s crucial that you understand that I love soccer and have made it a massive part of my life. Everywhere I go I think about soccer, everything I do in one way or another connects to my love and passion for the game. Soccer is my whole life and never would I have imagined that I would have to take a break from it. During the first week of summer break I caught up on sleep …show more content…
It also helped that I was outside for 7 hours a day in the sun training by myself, which made me exhausted and ready to pass out when I got home. I mean everything felt so much better after I got home between the smoothies I made and even just lying on the couch for the first time. It felt like a bag of books had been lifted off my shoulders and I could now lay in a hammock by the beach with a nice breath. Everything about life was and felt so good and beautiful. All I could do was think about how much fun I had training and think about the games I won whilst playing pickup. My mind drifted away to a paradise I feel like I could live in forever. But then all the training started to get to me. It was about 2 weeks later and just days before I was supposed to go to the Indiana University soccer camp. I was doing my usual workouts involving deadlifts and a lot of squats. This on top of all the long days of training caused me to develop patellar t in my knees as well as a slight strain in them. It was devastating the day after when I got back on the pitch and could barely run let alone