Hello and thanks so much for reading my blog! I've never had a blog before, and the idea of having one is kind of exciting. The main purpose of this blog is for Professor Guarracino's Rhetoric and Composition class, but after designing it and playing around with some of the stuff, I think I might actually try and keep this up! Yay!
This might come as a shocker, but... I'm a runner! As if you couldn't guess by the gigantic title and about me description of myself, haha. But honestly, running is my one passion. I guess this would be a fantastic post to explain the basics of why I'm a runner. I'll give more details in later posts.
I used to play soccer. Pretty much my entire childhood was spent playing soccer. I remember when I was about 7 or 8, my coach used to call me "Crazy Legs," because I'd always run around the soccer field and tried to play everyone's position for them. I'd never actually considered running as something more than what it was. I mean sure, it was fun beating a lot of the boys in gym class during small time trials, or relay races, but the actual thought of running hard and long never even occurred to me until high school.
I went to Triton Regional High School in Runnemede, NJ. As a freshman, I played soccer -of course- in the fall. My parents asked what I'd be doing in the winter and spring seasons. For a while, I considered swimming, or basketball. But something told me to do winter track, so I did, not knowing that it would lead to the very thing that I love to do today. Originally as a sprinter, I was awful. I didn't transfer into long distance running until the end of the season, when my parents suggested I run the mile race - just to try it. I cried after the race. I don't know why, but as soon as I saw my parents after I'd finished, this overwhelming feeling got me and held me by the lungs - or was that just me in oxygen debt?
Anyways, I decided to stick with it, after hearing so much praise. My time wasn't even that great (6:08), but I progressively got better. In the spring I did track. The next fall I did soccer again; it was my last ever season of soccer. I'd decided that the next year, I'd do cross country, mainly because I didn't like the soccer coaches, but also because running was becoming more and more appealing. Next thing I know, I'm a senior, and I'm the number one distance runner on Triton's cross country and track team! (Many more details to follow in later posts... so much to talk about!)
Anyways, here I am now in college, but stuck with an injury. Patello femoral chondrosis, patello femoral pain syndrome, patella tendonitis... call it what you will but basically, my knee hurts when I run. It getting better though.. I'll keep you posted about how it's progressing and other things.
I hope you enjoy my blog! :)
