My Experience

Authors Note: This story is going to be about how exercise isn't always a chore and some of the rewarding things you can get out of exercise.

As I heard, “First call for 100 meter dash”, it sounded like someone was calling my name through a loudspeaker and my heart started to race. I felt like everything was going in slow-motion. When I got down to the starting line, I started zoning everything out and started focusing on the finish line. A few seconds later I hear a loud voice say, “Runners please lineup”. For some reason I got less and less nervous with every passing second. After a few seconds I hear, “Runners on your mark……Get set…..Bang!” and the gun goes off quicker than I could ever imagine.

The first five seconds were just a big blur, but the last seven seconds seemed like seven hours. It was neck and neck with Mike like two Nascar drivers on the final lap. When we crossed the finished line I didn’t expect to finish that close to Mike. It felt like we finished at the exact same time like photo finish, but I finished a few mili-seconds behind him. 

I felt confident about my last event like a cheetah stalking i wounded wildebeest. It was the four by one which is a relay race where one person runs 100 meters and hands the baton off to another person who runs another 100 meters and so on. The only thing I was nervous about was dropping the baton. The one thing I could do was think confident about myself and hope everything would go fine.

When the time came for the four by one  I was the third person on the track to get the baton. I wasn't sure why the refs had us line up on the numbers. You can’t give a person  that is running only a 100 meters a head start on anything because it’s only 100 meters it's like giving a bingo player half their card already covered. The team of Zach, Brandon, Cooper and I got lane six which was very good because we were the farthest ahead when the gun went off. It took about 45 seconds to a minute for my whole team to get around the track.

You can really satisfy yourself when you're exercising or physically active. Or you could have a great story to tell like mine. Yes I might not have won my 100 meter dash, but I still came very close and tried my hardest and I am very satisfied with that. What will you satisfy yourself with?