Personal Writing: Joining The Track Team

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not tolerate anything but 110% from every single person,” and this I was willing to give. So I informed my boss at work that I would no longer be available to work in the afternoons and that I could only come in after 6 o’clock. Practice was to be held immediately after school, until 5:30 p.m., and that was only if we got all of our exercises done. That Tuesday we all met out on the track, I can remember the day. It was chilly, and there was a mild drizzle. We were all bundled up in layers of clothes, huddled together trying to be excited for what was in store for us for the next 2-3 hours. The coach’s came out and immediately gave orders; we were to run 2 miles for warm-up. So we all began running, after one lap we lost some people to asthma attacks, cramping, or they were just plain out of shape. It did not take me long to join them in their brisk walk, because if we were caught doing anything less than briskly walking we were going to regret the rest of practice. The ...

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then a 400, which was one lap. We had to give it our absolute best during the time trials because if our times decreased the coach’s were that much harder on us. Practice went like that for a month straight, we did not practice our events and there was never any fun time. I can especially say that doing bleachers was the worst part. Besides the fact of our rickety old wooded bleachers bowing in each time we stepped on them, I was terrified of heights. The next step of the process of training would be going home to have my muscles completely cramp up. I would go home and cry in a bath of hot water, then ice my self all night, twenty minutes on, and twenty minutes off. The only ...

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