When they say that you run your fastest while in a hotel hallway, many people don't realize how truthful that is. Overnight school trips are amazing and are a great opportunity, but sports overnight trips are even better. During Track season the biggest meet for us during the regular season was ACSI in Bangor, PA. This was May of 2013 and the first time we stayed overnight. previous years we enjoyed torturing ourselves and decided it would be way more fun to meet at school at 4 am and drive to the meet. This messed up our sleep schedules and hurdlers went first and I was barely awake.
Between athletes there is such a saying as "I run faster in the hotel hallways then I do anywhere else" is probably the most realistic and truthful statement about athletes I know. We went around the town and just admired the smallness of it all. It was the cutest center to a town I had seen in awhile.
The food that we had for dinner was your usually carb load up, the classics like pasta. We were a small team at this point with no that many girls and we were able to place 3rd over all. I wasn't able to achieve my goal of getting first place for my number 1 event and all time favorite the 100m hurdles. I knew I was coming back the next year to face the same girls and I wasn't going to lose to them again. We placed 2nd for the 4 by 100m relay and it was the best time for the year and we were happy about that.
The trip was an adventure and the track meet took all day and my whole team waited till I finish javelin and then we headed to the nearest sonic for our classic post meet dinner. That day each of us accomplished somethings that we never though where possible. But that day we might have run faster on the track then through the hotel hallways no matter how creepy they were.Life Lesson #21: There might be people out there that are faster and stronger, but as long as you push yourself to do your best then you can't walk away with your head low.
