Personal Narrative: How I Feel In Cross Country

“ Over the river and through the woods” hills, more woods, more hills, and another river”. This is how I feel in Cross Country. I’ve started getting faster, Which is awesome. The first meet I ran I got an overall PR But, The second meet I hurt myself by tripping in a pot hole falling onto my hip. I when I made contact with the ground, all I felt was pain. Pain was flowing through my hip over and over again in that race, I felt pain and I haven’t been able to run correctly since. My Dad had me walk around a block in our neighborhood, then run around it and I was super excited because I could run again, but when I started to run on uneven surfaces, once again, pain. How I think I hurt myself was because in Track last year, I was running the 100m and when I started to get out of the blocks, I messed up my hip, although it got better in a couple of weeks, but this time it’s a lot worse. I can’t run very well right now, I can’t do very many things in practice, When I go to meets all I do is cheer on my teammates, but I can’t any write mile times or their places because they have people to do that, and I haven’t been getting any faster.
I have been stretching and taking care of my hip but, it has taking an eternity to go back to its original state.
This injury has been one of the worst things that’s happened to me in a while but, on the bright side, I have time to do homework on the bus and I can have more time to make stuff out of cardboard and foam. One of the worst things about this is I trained a lot for Cross Country this year, and getting faster was my hope on the boards to write your hope on on the first day. I hope that my hip will heal soon, so I can finish the Cross Country season and be ready for track, and have an amazing track season.
I can keep running to get better for next year, and the next year, and the next
year.