Personal Narrative: Marine Fitness Competition

Failing at an endeavor has always made me strive to achieve more. Not being able to accomplish a goal was always a frustration in which I prided myself in settling. But being the competitor that I am, I generally keep on sustaining through my imperfections and not giving into the circumstance. A period of time that I encounter failure in my lifetime was when I was at a marine fitness competition during my sophomore year of high school. During the sit-ups part of the competition I received the maximum points allowed and I felt like I was on top of the world. Moments later into the event, during the push-ups, I began facing muscle fatigue, and failed to reach my goal of 100 points by 10 points. Leading off from that event, I continued to compete in the last events feeling unconfident, devastated, and distraught. I believed that I let my fellow teammates down and had not met everyone else’s standards and expectations. I had been preparing for months by doing heaps of repetitions of all the events for this competition and felt that all my diligent work and preparing had gone to waste. I felt along the lines of a disappointment and a failure, and thought because of this I would get bullied, and teased by my fellow …show more content…
I started to isolate myself from everyone and began an unhealthy lifestyle. I finally went back to practice after I overcame my grief and anger, and was ensured by my teammates it wasn't a big issue. I made a rundown and thought of ideas that would help me improve in push-ups or in any other physical conditioning. I asked for advice from my coach and quickly realized that there were other Marine Fitness competitions in the near future and that I had two more years left of high school. I also decided to eat healthier and balance my diet and conditioning to improve my endurance and

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