My Beginnings in Sports since Childhood – Week 141

Greetings friends from Hive and from the @ weekend-experiences community, every week motivates me to participate in this writing initiative, promoted by @galenkp, where he presents us with various topics and we choose one that we like and attract attention.

On this occasion, the theme he chose is that of my childhood, which brings back many memories that were marked in my mind and from that moment my life in sports began and I have still practiced for more than thirty years, where I had support from my parents in this discipline that requires great dedication, sacrifice and effort to achieve the goals set.

It all started when I was studying at school in fifth grade, and I hadn't defined that I should practice sports because I used a physical education subject where we saw different disciplines such as gymnastics, volleyball, soccer and the practice of oxygen consumption. Of all these, the one that I really liked was the oxygen consumption, which consisted of running 15 minutes on the court, and the winner was the one who completed the most laps in 15 minutes.

I began to like this sporting activity, because it could be practiced individually, all I had to have was shorts, a shirt and sports shoes, and everything depended on your physical conditions. Every time the oxygen consumption test was done, my brother and I, who studied together, came first, achieving a greater number of laps on the field.

When a sport is practiced, the child or young person must like it, so that with the support of their parents they can participate in different sporting events where they have discipline and responsibility for this sport. When he went to high school at the age of 12, some student games were held, and one of the competitions there was a 14 km race.

From that moment I began to train like my three brothers, in short 2km races. My beginnings were not easy because I was not used to running long distances. However, my brother encouraged me a little so that I would not stop training since I had enough time to prepare for that student career.

Now the date of the race arrived, where around fifty students participated from the first year to the fifth year, we left from the high school to a vial where it was 7km one way and then back until completing the 14km, I was among the last runners, and my brother achieved fourth place in the competition.

Despite having finished among the last, my goal was to complete the entire course, which for me was a great achievement, after that we formed a team of twenty runners from the community who had more experience in racing and with them I learned some training techniques to participate in different competitions.

It should be noted that these were my beginnings from childhood, in this marathon sport, which requires great dedication and sharing your study time, work to carry out training and be able to participate in different sports competitions in different parts of my country.

Currently, to be active, I practice hiking, it is a sport that I love, since I enjoy being in contact with nature.
I hope you liked it, I invite @lisbethseijas and @irvinc to participate in this writing topic.

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