How To Be Successful In Cross Country

Life is full of unexpected challenges that can result in failure. Even though failure is difficult to go through it is important to learn from your mistakes and to use them as building blocks to future success. I learned how failure can lead to future success when I did not accomplish my biggest goal during my sophomore season of cross country. I had found success throughout the whole season and my goal was set at the last three races of the season. The success in the season was fun but my failure in the end of the season was the most memorable and ultimately is what I learned from the most. My sophomore year of cross country I had set the goal to run in the state cross country meet. I would reach this goal by finishing as one of the seven fastest runners on our Bishop Mcguinness cross country team at the regionals meet. The regionals meet was the last meet other than state. My success throughout the season was amazing as I had been finishing in the top seven in every meet until regionals. I finished tenth on the team on the regionals meet to qualify for state, this means I did not reach my goal. After my regionals meet I felt devastated. I had trained all season, all my effort, all the early morning, all the running which was until you had a hard time walking, and I couldn’t compete in the one meet that truly mattered. My whole season had
No matter how big or small your failure is, you can learn from it. Using your mistakes to improve on yourself is something that is a great characteristic to have even though it can be very difficult. When you are faced with unexpected challenges that lead to failure it is all about how you respond to them. You can either let them bring you down or fight to accomplish your next goal and using the lessons you learned make it so much