A Young Runner’s Drive Is Worth More Than Gold: Middle- and Long-Distance Running

This is about middle- and long-distance running. The earlier parts were just something I wrote for fun. It’s not a power fantasy, there’s no male lead comeback, no Olympics, and nothing exaggerated. It’s about real middle- and long-distance running, the kind of thing happening right around you. A young person’s spirit is something you can never get back. You have no idea how interesting middle- and long-distance running can be in my hands. You might find the beginning a little dull, since I wrote it in ninth grade, but keep reading. The story shows what people aged seventeen and eighteen are really like, both at a high level and a low one. Let me show you what middle- and long-distance running looks like in real life.