Whether you’re starting out now or you were a couple years ago, for most of us the experience tends to be fairly similar. I joined cross-country the summer before my sophomore year in high school and has left me with many interesting experiences. If you’re a rookie runner, or you used to be, many of these incidents should seem very familiar.
You know you’re a Rookie Runner when…
Normally he’d be up there with the other more experienced runners but he has to lag behind to make sure you don’t get injured or left behind.
You finally get to run at your own pace without feeling pressured by the other quicker runners around you or you just walk altogether and take your well-deserved break.
You feel anxious just stretching.
In fact you’re the one trying to convince them and it doesn’t take much.
“Follow the North star.”
This is only fun if you’re not all on your own.
And when you finally go to an actual XC meet…
In the end, when everything’s all said and done you either find your way in running and acquire a new lifelong hobby, or you realize that it was never your thing in the first place.
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