Track
I've been running track each spring for the last six years, seventh through twelfth grade. Track, and running in general, have certainly made me who I am today, any life lesson can be found after putting hundreds of miles on a pair of shoes, through dazzling parks and woods or just around a track in a gym or field. My friends and memories from Track and Cross Country mean more to me today, and always will, than any award or acheivment gained throughout high school.
This all leads into the fact that I most very likely ran my last Track meet today, ending my high school team related running career. I got to run the two mile in the Badger North Conference meet and I ran it well, gaining a new PR according to Lance's clock. Earlier this year, running with Woodsy and others I got a 12:01, this time, running it by myself (and not nearly as far behind as I though) I got a 11:55, and I couldn't be happier.
It's strange, realizing that high school's coming to a close, but it's not a time to stop, stand still, and let the world pass us by. We've got to use what we've learned to do our best in whatever we do, and, no mater what, to not give up in the face of adversity, as best said by a fellow runner:
"Don't quit, dammit!"
Mary Liquouri, great American miler, to Kip Keino during a 1972 race at Villanova when Keino backed off on the gun lap
(From my Runner's World email quote of the day)
We're entering our gun lap, the last bit of the race we call high school, and there are more races to run, more finish lines to cross, so no matter where you're at in life, "Don't quit, dammit!"
This all leads into the fact that I most very likely ran my last Track meet today, ending my high school team related running career. I got to run the two mile in the Badger North Conference meet and I ran it well, gaining a new PR according to Lance's clock. Earlier this year, running with Woodsy and others I got a 12:01, this time, running it by myself (and not nearly as far behind as I though) I got a 11:55, and I couldn't be happier.
It's strange, realizing that high school's coming to a close, but it's not a time to stop, stand still, and let the world pass us by. We've got to use what we've learned to do our best in whatever we do, and, no mater what, to not give up in the face of adversity, as best said by a fellow runner:
"Don't quit, dammit!"
Mary Liquouri, great American miler, to Kip Keino during a 1972 race at Villanova when Keino backed off on the gun lap
(From my Runner's World email quote of the day)
We're entering our gun lap, the last bit of the race we call high school, and there are more races to run, more finish lines to cross, so no matter where you're at in life, "Don't quit, dammit!"