She unexpectedly began running xc her freshman year (half way through after the coach and runners pursued her) and she grew to enjoy the running and the friendships. We grew to enjoy the 30-60 minute drives for a 22 minute event.
She would get done with track at the end of May, take a week off and start 6 day training weeks for cross country. She never made it to state as she’d hoped. But she kept it up and was a great cheerleaders to her entire team the whole way.
It was an unexpected sad day for her. I’m not sure she really expected it to hurt so much to end finally. But she’ll have more of these this year and she’ll get used to it before she starts a lifetime of firsts next year. I was happy that when she saw me I was the person she wanted to fall into in tears. After our long hug she got a other from a teammate and was able to go on with the day.
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