This past weekend the cross country traveled to Marshal County to compete in the regional competition. We came to the race ranked fifth in the Region but only the top four teams would advance to the State Meet, so the pressure was on. The night before we had a team dinner at my coaches how and he showed us a video of two women competing in the IronMan. When these women were fighting the pain at times they could not even stand up, they ended the race by crawling to the finish line. Their bodies were exhausted from the mileage they ran and they were drained. Our coach told us that we may say that we are in pain but we haven’t experienced true pain until we go through what those two women had to go through. I look at this video as inspiration, I see two women giving it all they have to finish the race. I went to regional’s with a mind set that I was going to give it all I had even if it meant that I was going to have to hurt, it was going to be worth it in the end. I wanted to cross the finish the line with no regrets and to be proud of the race that I ran. We ended up finishing fourth all together and I’m extremely proud of my team.