How I Started Loving Cross Country

Everything started with 5th grade me, I just wanted to join a sport for fun and to try something new. Then this pattern would happen, I would join cross country and track every year and then tried volleyball and soccer in 7th and 8th grade, that obviously didn't work out. I'm going to be a sophomore in high school and my first year in high school cross country and track was way different than what I had in middle school. My school was not the best and we did not have the most runners, I didn't take practice seriously up until 7th and 8th. But the thing that helped me into high school cross country was that I started early and knew about the sport earlier that it helped me a tad bit; knowing the gist of xc. I wasn't the most athletic person in middle school so I'm surprised how much i'm achieving right now, i'm not the fastest with a mile time of 6:45, 2 mile 15:00, and 3 mile 22:54, but I'm working harder to beat those times. Even though I only completed my first year of xc, I feel like i've done everything, but I know I have more to do. Without my 5th grade self being curious, I don't think I would've ever found xc and track and find where I really belong. I'm excited with where my running path will lead me and I'm ready to see what it brings me.

- @bbytiffyx ( Tiffany Lam )