The other day someone asked me how long I had actually been running. Well I thought about it and I have been running since I was 12 years old. I remember sitting in homeroom at Crayton Middle School and an announcement came on about cross country practice at the High School I would be going to in two years, A.C. Flora. I thought, hmmm, I can run. I knew nothing about cross country, or even what that actually was. I remember my mom dropped me off at practice that first day, and I have been running ever since. My friends and family all made fun of me and would often say, “you are going to run…for fun”. I didn’t know it then, but I got hooked. My coach and teammates made my middle school experience do a complete 180 and I did good in school just so I could get to practice and run. I ran cross country and track all through high school. Of course there were the roller coaster of events of me getting hurt, but I wouldn’t change anything from those days. I ate, slept, and dreamed about running.
Now of course things are a little different, but here I am still running. I see people from high school random places and their first comment to me is normally, “Hey you were that fast white kid” and then followed by “are you still running”. My answer is always yes to both!! Over the past years, I have taken time off due to injuries or having kids, but I run any chance I get.
I saw this on pinterest and this pretty much sums up my running career!!!
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