Track Meet Research Paper

It was two days before the track meet. The fastest kid on our relay team got hurt and we had a backup in his place. The backup that was put in, was new to middle school track and that eventually would show in the track meet. There was one last practise before the track meet and I wasn't going to be there. This practise was for all the relay runners. It would be the first and only time that the whole relay team would get to run together. I never got to see how the person behind me would handoff but that never affected the team.

The track meet was on a Tuesday and the nerves didn’t hit me until the night of the day before. I had a hard time going to sleep the night before but the day came fast. The next morning we were told to go to our first hour class for about 45 minutes and wait to be called to the lunch area. The class that I had was science and that was the longest 45 minutes of my life. When we were finally called, about eight people got up to leave. When we got down to the commons, we realized it was raining. I was kind of

After we got up to the stands to find a place to sit, we started to do some warmup laps. Some rookies were practically running their race and getting tired. We knew from experience that's exactly what you don’t want to do. After that it was pretty much just a waiting game. We got there at about 9:00 and I didn’t start getting ready for my event until about 2:15. Most of the time I sat up there and talked, but I would go out onto to the main field and talk to the shot putters while they threw. At about 12:30 or 1:00 my mom got there but the nerves for the race started to kick in. She had brought Goldfish which were my favorite snack and I started to stress eat. I had to force myself to put them down before I got sick and I went down to the main field and started to practise with my team. Eventually the time came and we were called into the