Overcoming Hurdles

Overcoming “Hurdles”

Nervousness! The one feeling our bodies never seem to hide. For some people, they have to be faced with a great challenge to experience this. While for others, just standing in front of a class size full of people like myself can be very nerve wrecking. I have a short story to share about a moment in time when I felt this feeling of apprehension the most.
A freshman, yes that’s what I was. My first home track meet of my high school career. Today was a fairly warm spring day. A great day I might add for my first taste of a real teeth gritting, nerve bending, battle. I was getting ready to do to the 300-meter hurdles, which was up next. Oh, how those hurdles make me nervous. This was my first chance to prove to everyone that I have potential and that I was a winner. The very f...