Running, sweating, dieting, pushing your body to its breaking point, and the season hasn‘t even started. This is the heart of athletes who want the glory, who want the fame, and the respect. This is what serious track athletes crave, wish and yearn for. The opportunity to make dreams become reality and competition is where it’s achieved. Waiting in your starting block, waiting for the gun to go off, helplessly wondering am I going to become a champion or a failure. Before you can answer, the gun goes off. Faster and faster your heart begins to beat. Sweat begins pouring from your body, your muscles are aching and body’s feeling numb. This 400m race seems like eternity. As fans cheer you on, the onc
Track and Field has given me so much in life. From having a taste of pain turn into accomplishment to feeling the joy of victory to sadness of defeat. Track has given me many opportunities as an athlete to learn and understand that honest hard work gives plentiful rewards. That if you love something so much and spend so much time perfecting it that it will give back as much as you put in.
The reality of Track is a painful reality. Your testing and forcing your body to limitations it hasn’t experienced before. Sacrifices aren’t recommended or suggested their a must to become a fined tuned athlete. Sacrifices such as being on a strict exercising schedule and focusing on your high protein low sugar diet. This is what I put myself