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Personal Narrative: Speeding Up In A Cross Country

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Speeding up

At the beginning of the cross country season I hated cross country absolutely hated it, I would walk down the hallway of saline middle school look at all of the pictures on the wall and saw some of kids running and thought why is My mom doing this to me? I thought I was a terrible at it, I would run like a 9 or 10 minute mile. So when the school year came along I dreaded the end of the day I would look at the clock and think a tiny bit longer, please just a wee longer (and that is very very rare.) When the season began I had a lot of trouble, whether it was keeping up or if it was breathing problems, and My friend Zaske (who was and still is much faster than me) was nice enough that instead of going up with all the faster kids he stayed back with me, but even when he was going his slowest I still had trouble keeping up he would try to encourage me by saying “come on Michael just a little faster,” and I would respond with “i'm… …show more content…

At the end of the season, I realized cross country was a lot of fun instead of just running you get to meet new people that you didn't even know went to your school or just get to hang out with people you were already friends with. But when cross country season ended, I was kind of sad because I didn't really get to see my friends that weren't in my class and I had nothing to look forward to to do after school, so I would always think to myself I can’t wait till next

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