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Is It Hit Me?

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Suddenly it hit me. I realized how bad things could potentially be. The doctor told me the news and I felt sick to my stomach. It felt like everything I had worked so hard for had simply crashed down. Everything that I worked so hard for was gone in the blink of an eye. After the doctor broke the news I completely tuned him out and thought about what I was going to do. These decisions could make or break me. Headed into my freshman year, I had trained pretty hard for the upcoming cross country season. The summer was full of many fun runs and I felt great coming into the season. My training partner was David and we often pushed each other to do better. We were around the same pace so it only made sense for us to run together. At Cross …show more content…

It was a beautiful crisp fall day at Johnson Park and we had already ran our first two meets. My times were not quite what I was hoping for but I was happy with them. David, Josh, Zach, and I were on a five mile run. As we headed up a monstrous hill there was a feeling that was all too familiar. It felt like the femur in my leg had been punched by Muhammad Ali. It was not a pain that immediately destroyed me, it was a slow constant pain.
“Hey Josh, what did it feel like when you had your fracture last spring?” I asked.
“Well it started as a dull pain and just got worse and worse. The issue was that I kept running on it when it hurt.” He replied.
Right after he finished saying that line my body froze. I had the thought of what if this is happening to me? I choose to play it off and finished up the run. Besides, the next day was Cedar Springs and that was my second favorite meet.
It was early Saturday morning and my mom had gotten up early to make breakfast before my big race. I quickly chomped it down and got dropped of at school for the bus. When we first got to the meet I was feeling incredible. We warmed up and it felt like there was nothing that could stop me! I had not been this confident all year. As the official called us to the line I was getting psyched up in my head.
“David we are about to PR. (Personal Record) Let’s start out at our typical pace and keep it that way for the second mile, then let’s give her all she’s got!”

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