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Tough Mountain Challenge Research Paper

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“Welcome all 2,500 competitors to the 2016 Tough Mountain Challenge!” I heard the emcee yell that over the speakers around the area and my chest seemed to vibrate with the noise coming from them. My eyes seemed to wander around to the many diverse faces lining up at the start. This would be my second year doing the race and I was both nervous yet excited to start. That day I overcame many hurdles both physically and mentally.
The Tough Mountain Challenge is a 5K up and down Sunday River with physically challenging obstacles. My first year doing the race I did it with my mom and her friend, but the second year it was just my mom and I. There were certain parts of the course that were hard on all of us, but we never left each other. I was taught …show more content…

At one point you have to grab ropes and pull yourself up the rest of the way. As I climbed this I heard peoples constant questioning “why did I do this again?” and I constantly questioned that myself. Going through that race there were points where I just wanted to stop, I wanted to sit down and just give up. After I finally made it to the top of the mountain all I wanted to do was take a long nap, but I told myself “NO” you’ve got this and I will see this to the end. Every runner wore a bib number with the time they start on it. As I was running people were passing me who had started after me, and I kept thinking I was going too slow and that I shouldn’t be taking this long to complete it. Through words of encouragement from my mom and decipline mentras from myself I finished the race, I crosses the fanish line and the feeling of triumph as I crossed it was something I’ll never forget. If it was so hard why do I keep doing it? I do it because I know it’s something that challenged me and I know it will keep challenging me year to year, but that excites me. I proved to myself that I could do it and I want to keep proving to myself that with determination and unwillingness to quit I can do anything that I put my mind

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