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With every step you take, you get closer and closer to the finish line. Heart pounding, wanting to escape your chest, hoping that it can push you through to the end. Sweat dripping down your face. Questioning yourself, “Why am I doing this?” This is how some of the runners feel this year for the NS track team.
“I am really sore¾ that’s what I feel about track,” junior Sophie Dujin said, “It really sucked at the beginning, but now it’s fun, I guess.”
Others like junior Linzy Flinders can’t wait for the first race on March 20. Flinders previously competed for the NS cross country team, and made it to nationals. She did some conditioning during the winter so that when she came back in the spring she would be ready for this year’s season.
“I’m super excited,” Flinders said. “There are so many more people this year, we might even have enough for two relays.”
With the Olympic number of events at a track competition being around 52, including both male and female, the high school usually has about 20, with each athlete allowed to participate in up to four events. The most common is the 100 meter, the 200 meter, the 4×100 meter, the medley and the mile.
Many of the beginning racers usually run the mile or a similar, more simple course for their first race. Sprinters such as sophomore Isabelle Hightower race the 200 meter or the 4×100 meter. The different distances offered separates the team into sprinters and endurance runners; sprinters don’t run more than a 400 meter and the endurance runners run the 400 meter and up.
“I’m just super excited, we have a really good team this year, everyone has so much potential,” Flinders said.
The coaches plan on helping everyone as much as possible to help them get to where they think they could be this year.
All in all, this year’s track team seems as if they have much potential and great hope for their races. Let’s just hope they don’t end up stumbling at the finish line.
