Where to start..? Buckle your seatbelts, get some popcorn and prepare for 3 years of health issues and sports.
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In 2020 my family and I moved 3 hours away from the city to a tiny town with literally ONE school. So obviously i had to enroll there without any choice, honestly it was utterly terrible but it offered a motherload of sport.
I'd always wanted to do track and this school offered it. I tried out for the team and made the 80m, 90m, 100m, long jump, high jump and 120m hurdles. I didnt have a care for the long jump and high jump, it was the sprinting i really loved.
Because I was so young I couldnt compete the larger competitions so they had me run an Inhouse and i broke 4 speed records. After that i remember getting a lot of attention from the school. Keep in mind i was 9 years old or something.
The next year I ran the inhouse again and won literally every race and then went to run an Inter-school, won that, inter provincial i won and then competed at the Province Championship. I killed the field then but during one of my races, the 90m, I misstepped and my ankle clicked. I still managed to win but i was limping terribly afterwards.
2021 I won the Best Junior Female Athlete Of The Year or the BJF Award. For about 3 months i struggled with my ankle and my heels. During the off-season my ankle got sprained and i devloped a serious cold of sorts which left me unable to train for the entire August-December.
The ankle eventually healed but i was having terrible lung issues. As any sensible 11 year old would i competed anyway. I came off limping after every run and sometimes even bleeding in my heels.
The cough came back for the National qualifiers and i went anyway even though i was having dizzy spells and struggling to breathe properly. I came third in my race and got pulled out by the officials. My coach also quit.
Next year I was back and ready to run again. I had also quit doing 70m, hurdles and high jump. The school nicknamed me the "Red Bull". Which is stupid because i dont even like red. But it was because i just picked a point and power ran for it (the red was the school colours).
I won another BJF award at Nationals (which i qualified for!). My new coach however had been treating me innapropriatly and making me very umcomfortable. I tore a muscle at the next race and fell.
After that my doctors, who i was seeing more than my own family, advised me not to run again. My parents made me quit the sport and took me out of school
I've always wanted to run the way i used and this year I've been doing well health-wise. Is it worth trying again?
Sunny
