Take a second and picture your normal cross country race.
Imagine the sound of the gun echoing in your ears as you take those first strides. Your family and friends stand on the sidelines cheering as hundreds of footsteps rumble around you. The crisp, fall air rushes against your face and cools your quickly inhaling lungs. Coaches and parents scream splits at you and the other runners around you as you pass each mile marker and teammates continue to cheer you on. As you reach the spectator-free areas of the course, you start to focus more on how tired your body feels, the soft breathing of the runners around you, their feet crunching the colorful leaves that have recently fallen on the trails you now tread on.
Now take away the gun. Take away the cheering, the rumbling, the screaming, the breathing, and the crunching. What do you have left?
The average cross country race of L.C. Bird junior, Andre McLean.
McLean has been running track and fi...
