Coach tries to pump everyone up for the big race tomorrow but all you can hear are the sniffles coming from all the the runners. Everyone shivers as a cool, fall breeze passes through the group. As coaches speech drags to an end we all thank him, and get our stuff to leave. Everyone jokes around per usual, though there is a dense fog of stress hanging in the air. Tomorrow is the biggest cross country race of the season. If the team does good then they get to stay running for another week and go to regionals, but if they have a bad race their season will end right there without states.
As Sarah returns home from practice with her older brother Adam, she remembers her last race. She remembers how little water she drank and how much it affected …show more content…
A lot of pressure is on you today." Adam explains with no intentions to help calm her down. He washes his bowl and sets it in the cupboard. He asks if Sarah is ready to go. She knows she is not ready for this but also knows she can't say that to him. Sarah grabs her hot pink bag that she had used for school the year before, it is bursting at the seems with all her things. She decided to pack a blanket, extra clothes, extra shoes, some food to munch on, and her phone. She knows it's gonna be a big bus ride, but it's gonna be an even longer day ahead of …show more content…
Every girl including Sarah rushes off the starting line, they blog up the first hill of many. So far Sarah is staying with the top three girls on the team pretty well, thought the girls have only been in this race for a short time. The girls all push past each other using elbows, agressivly getting passed each other. I make my way into the front half. So far Sarah is in fourth on her team which hasn't happened yet. She rushes down the downhills and uses them to sprint up the uphills just like Coaches said to do. Throughout her race Sarah is passing more an more people. Within this first mine her shoe untied. It's still on but the muddy laces are going everywhere. Still she rushes past many girls. Each time she sees one of her teammates on the sideline, they seem to be getting very excited and yell for her to push it. Sarah is confused why they seem so excited, so she keeps going. Picking one girl off at a time each some she sees her coach he pushes her to run even harder and faster. She keeps thinking she is soon going to die out but she keeps going harder and faster. She barely hurts and feels okay still. Soon Sarah sees the number three girl on her team! She didn't know she was running this good! She never runs this close to Hope in a meet. When Sarah saw Hope it sped her up a ton. Hope took Sarah under her wing and now Sarah wants to make her proud. She catches her and at first Hope looks confused, then scared and then happy and proud. Sarah keeps going