Feb 24, 2010

Tell about a great victory or personal success story from your school days.

I think that the one greatest victory for me was not a victory as far as the race that I was in at the time but it was still a victory none the less personally.

It was my senior year and in the fall. I was running on the cross country team and was basically the second fastest in our school. We had several races and I had done pretty good all year. A 4 minute mile had recently been accomplished in world competition but all we wanted was a five minute mile average for three miles.

Well it was a race in Price that I want to write about here. It was on a golf course that had a lot of rolling hills to it and we had to run around it twice. I knew it was going to be a rough course and even worse than the one we ran in Tabiona where we ran up a hill for the first part of the race but here it was up and down and up again so that you were having to use up a lot of energy during the entire race. Well I had kind of just ran a standard race for the first round trying to conserve as much energy as possible but trying to not fall to far back. However Coach Josie shouted that I was in 25^th place as we ran past the starting gate at the end of the first round so I knew I had possibly waited too long. Well I kicked it in and started to run much faster yet trying to keep an even pace knowing that I knew what the course was like and tat I could run it OK. I can recall quite vividly the other boys that I began to pass as I went around the second time. It started to hurt and my lungs began to burn but I knew I had to pass as many as possible. I kept going and slowly passed all but four other runners by the end of the race coming in 5^th place overall. I may not have won the race but I passed 20 others on the last lap that had been ahead of me the entire first lap and that for me was quite a victory.