Cross country would be fun it is wasn't for all the running

One of my favorite sports to play is basketball, I played basketball all four years of high school and i still miss playing it. It was pretty much the only sport that i played in, i tried going out for football my sophmore year but i suck and so did our team. I think our football team won 3 games throughout my four years of high school that's how much we sucked. My senior year i wanted to do a sport in the fall that would keep me in shape in time for basketball. The only three sports you could do in the fall at my school was football and cross country. I thought about trying for going out for cross country but i didn't know if i would be good at it. I didn't do track throughout high school so i thought i would suck. One of my best friends was in cross country and he pushed me to do it but i still wasn't sure and didn't go to any of the first weeks practices but then i decided to show up for a practice. The first practice we ran 3 miles and i about died at the end of it. I decided to see how i liked it after a week and it wasn't that bad but i was right about sucking. There was only one more guy slower than me and he was a freshman. Since i skipped the first week i couldn't go to the first meet but the second meet i didn't really know what i was doing so i started out fast and was first for about a second and ended up second to last. That last person being my freshman teammate. Throughout the season i got better and I had a lot more fun than i expected. I got lost at a couple of meets which kinda sucked because one was at a forest and i didn't know which flags meant what way to go and at our conference meet the guy told me to go the wrong way and I ran an extra half a mile but still beat my freshman teammate. It was a good thing i did because before that race i told him if he beat me i would buy him some burger king. There was also all the spaghetti dinners the night before the races and then the day of the race. The best part of the race was the end when I used my final burst of energy to pass some people. My coach would always tell me why don't you use that during the race and i was like i don't know i just get this burst at the end. I also enjoyed all the water polo matches we would have and the girls would have like 2 more people plus our coach and we would still own them. I am glad that i went out for it and wish i would've earlier than my senior year.