You've trained for this all season
You walk up to the starting line
Ready to strut your stuff
You huddle with your teammates and pray
You leaning forward as if frozen to the line
The gun fires and so do you
You push yourself to keep ahead
People cheer to keep you going
You can't give up-you've worked too hard
Your breathing is getting heavier
You need to slow down
But you don't
Plenty of runners are behind you
many colors of jerseys-a rainbow
You hear,"Catch'um, one by one!"
You're almost there
As you approach the shoot, you give it everything
Friends and family are on either side of you
It seems so far away
You're there,you're there, the white line
You're panting like a dog
You did it
Friends come to hug you
State meet, here I come
(C) Copyright Perrin Thomas
**dedicated to my cross-country coach-Mr. Otmanns. thank you**
