My First 5K

So the cross country team ran our first race of the Spring today.  The Race for the Rock at Clemson.  It sucked at first, mainly because they did stupid Clemson cheers before the race started.  But overall I really enjoyed the race, except for my knee hurting.  I had to stop and walk three times, but I still didn’t even finish last, so that made me feel a lot better.  I finished like 26:01.

I really hated knowing that I could do a lot better, but not being able to.  It’s frustrating when you know, under normal conditions, that you can do something, but then, because of an injury or something you can’t. I just hate this whole knee issue because it’s not only keeping me out of cross country, but it’s keeping me from frisbee, softball, and it even hurts when I walk.

Unfortunately, due to my knee, I won’t be running with the team for the rest of this semester.  Coach wants me to take a few weeks off to let my knee heal and then slowly work my way back up to race speed.  Just keep me in prayer, mainly that this knee thing isn’t anything major, and that it will heal and be fine with time.