Gina had a cross-country meet last night at Nordonia and ran her best race. The photo above is her making the final push to the finish line. Everyone was screaming and yelling as these two girls fought it out for the finish. The Nordonia did girl pass Gina only 10 feet from the line!
As Gina was replaying the finish to me later last night, she was very disappointed that she was passed at the end. Gina said "I tried but I could not have run any faster!" I replied, "You ran your best race then. If you have enough energy to sprint that hard at the end, then you did not run the rest of the race to your best ability for that day!" She then realized that she did indeed have a great day!
Running is one of those sports where winning is not the only way to achieve victory! Pushing yourself to the finish, dropping time, or even just completing the event, are all ways of winning! Just starting a race is a lot of times a victory in itself. Seeing these kids run gives me hope that maybe the future will be alright after all.
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