Personal Narrative: Overcoming Obstacles

In the life time you are given, there comes a time you cannot succeed. You may get stuck or it is too much of a challenge. To be successful and to overcome the fear of not being good enough you have to take steps. These steps can be little or even bigger to complete. I find it easiest to take baby steps and take one moment at a time. Even if I don’t get a step accomplished everyday I know I can have one done by the end of the week. As I struggle with a sport I try and find a way to fix it. The sport I struggle in is track and field. I run the 300 meter hurdles and the 100 meter hurdles. These two events in track can be the most complicated, but you can’t give up as you try and train for them. We don’t train them like we do any other race …show more content…
To get under the minute fifteen is tough, as well as the thirty seconds. Every time I am in the blocks, waiting for the gun to go off, I get the nervous pee. I feel as this is one of the setbacks that goes through my mind as I start my race. When I approach the first hurdle my form isn’t the prettiest as it should be. We have to sprint the whole entire race. We may be doing a three hundred meter race or a one hundred meter race, but in the end it is a four hundred and two hundred meter race. With the jumping of the hurdles in the lanes we are working twice as much than we would be just sprinting without the hurdles. The race is tiring when I get to the middle hurdle I am worn out, I slow down, my strides change, and I am just not putting the effort in anymore. The race must go on and I can’t give up. My goal is between each hurdle and throughout the race is to never give up and push through the pain. Our mind runs our body as we are in pain. No matter what happens the race is always finished. The only thing that gets me upset as a runner is I know in the end I gave up on the middle hurdles to catch my breath instead of pushing through it to get a better time. I always get upset if I don’t get a personal record. As the athlete in this race I can speak for everyone on how much there actually is. The pain is the worse part not the race. The steps I have been trying to keep up with is exercise a few times a

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