It was the end of summer with only a week left of summer vacation. I was with my cousin Karlee when she brought up cross country “I have cross at 5:30, can your mom drop me off then pick me up when it’s over” Karlee started
“Probably i’ll ask her” I replied
We were talking about it when she asked why I'm not gonna do it. I didn’t really know why other then I thought I couldn't.
“I don’t want to, I don't think I could do it.” I said
“You should it’s fun” Karlee replied Paige
We talked about it more and I thought about , all night and the rest of the week. Then sooner then I knew it, it was the night before the first day of school and I had to decide whether I was gonna go to …show more content…
The next day I showed up, nervous really, really nervous. It was hard the next few weeks and I had my doubts, then it was time for the first meet. It was a saturday at Iowa Western, middle schoolers ran last so it was a long wait. Then when I got up there at the start line, the grass was cut short and the sun was bright, it was super quiet as he was getting ready to shoot the gun, I was never so nervous, I don't know why but I thought there’s no way I can do this it’s not gonna happen, but it did. I didn’t do that good but I finished and that’s all I cared about. As the season went on I had my doubts as of wether I could do it or not finish another meet go through another …show more content…
There were many times I wanted to quit or give up but I didn’t even though I really wanted to at points. I remember the last three meets, they were the best. They were in Shenandoah, Atlantic, then Clarinda. Shenandoah was my favorite course i'm not sure why maybe it was the trees and the paths we had to run of were fun, it was shady most of the places and filled with plants and trees on a dirt path. At Atlantic it was pouring rain all day and when it came time for the middle schoolers to run it was muddy and people were falling at the start, everyone got super muddy and wet. Then in Clarida it was the last meet and I was super nervous right when we got there I knew it was gonna be hard. When we walked part of the course there were corn fields and trees on the outside of it. When we got up to the start I was nervous I said I saw scared for the other ones well this one was 10 times worse but the gun went off and we ran and finished, then it was over. The season went fast, it was long but fast at the same time. It was fun scary, hard, but