<p>Do you mind telling us the exact reason why?</p>
<p>Why I quit track?</p>
<p>No, why you lost your virginity. Seriously, why did you quit track?</p>
<p>yes, why'd you quit. </p>
<p>Ohh, and my previous comment with the "no life" was for logisticlord, not for you.</p>
<p>I quit track this year too. I was the best discus thrower in my school too. lol. Track blows.</p>
<p>It's a long story, and I don't know if I could really get it across over the internet. I have a hard enough time in real life. Do you still want me to try?</p>
<p>Not if it's something really personal, something that has to do with family problems or something of the same extremity. We'll understand. :)</p>
<p>yo ll are u going to try to beat your time o are you satisfied with your AMAZING accomplishment</p>
<p>Perhaps he thinks that College Confidential might qualify as an interesting EC... <em>chuckles</em></p>
<p>omg im so putting that down when I apply for college....</p>
<p>College Confidential High School Forum----Active Member---- 40 hours a week---- (description of activity) Making myself seem stupid compared to your other applicants- I mean, seriously, who takes Calculus BC in friggin 7th grade.</p>
<p>Im sooooo getting in with that right there lol</p>
<p>Oh yes. They will most certainly hail you for your electronic intellectual superiority.</p>
<p>I'm sure they would.</p>
<p>I know right?!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Im gunna seem sooooooooo much cooler than the ModelUN-AfghanistanDelegate loser!</p>
<p>Oh... the only thing that bothers me about it is how stupid I was. And sorry for typos etc... I am so not re-reading this.</p>
<p>So, I've been running since I was a little kid. I've always loved running. My mom says that when I was learning to walk, I walked for a week, then I ran for 3 years. Well, I've been in track since 6th grade, and sure it wasn't my favorite sport (Nordic Skiing is), but I'd always enjoyed it.</p>
<p>Well, it was spring of my freshman year and I was getting ready for track. An older friend of mine got me in the morning to start morning workouts (she's amazing, state record holder in the pole vault, we met in skiing). I was getting better. Improving in all of my events. I was really excited about pole vault, because well, I was second best on the team, after the state record holder.</p>
<p>Everything was going great. I was getting into track shape, my muscles were switching over to fast-twitch. I was dropping time. I was working hard at all of the practices, and I was going in to morning practices 2 or 3 times a week. Then, about a month into the regular season, the top of my foot started to swell a little bit. It continued getting a little bigger everyday for about half a week, but it wasn't bothering me. Then, it got huge the day of a track meet, and hurt like hell.</p>
<p>That track meet was terrible, I no heighted PV and got last place in 100H, I couldn't even force myself to to 300H. I figured that, since I could walk/run on it, it was nothing to worry about. I ended up taking a week off running, and in that week it stopped bothering me, for the most part. I finished off that track season, and had a few decent times. I'd gotten my 400 down to 64 seconds, my 300H was in the mid-high 40's. And I was ready to have an awesome season sophomore year.</p>
<p>My foot was still a little swelled, so I didn't run at all for the first 3 weeks of summer to let it heal.</p>
<p>Well, sophomore year... my nordic skiing season had ended, and in the middle of our end-of-season banquet, my same foot began tingling. I got home and checked it, and it had swelled up a bit more than usual (it had gotten smaller, but hadn't returned to normal). I went to the trainer the next day to see what he said. We had figured it was metatarsalgia, we knew it wasn't a stress fracture because he did a few tests to make sure. So then he told me to go to the podiatrist because I might have a neuroma.</p>
<p>So I get an appointment scheduled for 3 days into the track season, I couldn't get it any earlier. I didn't sign up for track, because if it was a neuroma there was an 80(?)% chance I'd need surgery. So I get to the podiatrist, get my foot x-rayed. Turns out it was a stress fracture. He tells me there's nothing they can really do for it, but I can run track. I wasn't allowed to walk barefoot/wear flimsy soled shoes for a year, but I could run track (no spikes). He also said that if my foot bothered me at all I would be off it for a year.</p>
<p>Well, I didn't let myself do any extra practices or anything. And my coach from freshman year (I loved him) quite because our terrible AD. The new coach really didn't like that I missed 3 days of practice at the beginning, or 2 days for Speech later on, or that I wasn't nearly as fast as the year before.</p>
<p>That year was terrible. It was very unenjoyable and runnign started getting not-so-fun. As hard as it was to quit, I'm not letting that coach ruin running for me, so I did.</p>
<p>Oh, and yeah... my foot is still swollen, 2 years later. I haven't seen an improvement in it in a year and half. It's supposed to be healed in the spring of my freshman year in college, but I doubt it will be.</p>
<p>Awww... I'm very sorry to hear that. I do pray that your foot will improve. At least there are many other things in life that you're good at and will make you happy.</p>
<p>It doesn't bother my skiing, which is all that matters.</p>
<p>Wow. That is alot for you to handle. I hope your foot gets better soon, it must suck to have to quit like that.</p>
<p>It sounds way more dramatic than it actually is.</p>
<p>Why are you creating threads like this to increase your post count? :P</p>
<p>yeah that sucks (not the most sensitive person in the world right here). but, as righteous_vigilante said, you, as with most other CCers ;), have a bright future to look forward to. don't let this get you down too much!!</p>