“I remember thinking before the race, like ‘What if I end up finishing in front of all the other girls that are faster than me?’”

Oh, oh, oh, so I had a cross country race this fall. I wo- — I’m not the fastest. I’m the fourth fastest on our team. Um, third or fourth fastest on our team and — for girls. All th- — like almost all the boys are faster than me. So there was this one race, the big invitational, and our top runner — she kinda did this a lot, she started like throwing up and — on the side of the course and I passed her and I was like “Oh this is not good, right?” And usually when that happens, she just like passes me right back and, um, still does really well because she has a crazy last — crazy fast last mile. That did not happen and then I passed the two other girls that were in front of me from our team and so for the first time ever, and probably the only time ever, I was the fastest finisher for our team in a cross country race. And I thought that that was nuts because I, I remember thinking before the race, like “What if I end up finishing in front of all the other girls that are faster than me?” And I did and it was crazy and I just felt like really cool. Like during the race, I felt really good and I think I negative splitted the third mile. And like, so many people came up to me after and they just, like, told me how proud they were. And I dunno, it was just a big moment for me because I, I never saw myself as like a fast runner and I think that really helped boost my confidence.