Personal Narrative Essay About Track And Cross Country

Running hurts. I do not think that I could have felt my body's limits any other way like I have through track and cross country. Not only the physical pain but the emotional pain of failing to meet one's potential during a race can hurt. Luckily, the failure that I am rehashing in this essay is not one so big that I might not ever overcome it. I have always been scared of allowing any nonessential aspect of life (sports, academics, etc.) to control or stress me out. For instance, I have always poked fun about how my grandfather could care so much about a football game that he lost back in the Fifties. I made promises to myself to never let something like that influence that greatly. Why drag on about that when I could talk about adventures or loving relationships? Of course, this is when track came into my life to force me to eat my words. The reason I think track had such impact on me was because the way you have to rely on yourself and the fact that nobody else is to blame but you

My sophomore time on the 1600m run had gotten down to a 4:36. Excited about my junior, I worked as hard as I ever have at improving my time during the off-season. Shortening the story, I did not come close to my goal of knocking off ten to fifteen seconds off my time and that was utterly saddening. Even after years of not wanting sports to affect me on a personal level, failing to make goal hurt, and because I do not like having other people to blame for failures, like in other sports, I have always been way to harsh on myself. I can honestly say that is my biggest internal struggle and it branches off into so many other parts of my life. That failure my junior year of high school, changed how my work ethic and most importantly got rid of my sense of entitlement. Unfortunately enough, I can honestly say that I will probably be talking about my failure in a high school sport way into my