My sub 5 mile story (WIP)

Eight grade year I remember being a tubby, unfit child who played soccer his whole life and was never much good at it. Winter came around and although I didn't want to play a sport, my mother was insistent that I should try out indoor track, and so I was very reluctant but I tried it. I did not fall in love with the sport but I had a couple of friends going in, and made friends during the season so instead of trying lacrosse in the spring, I signed up for track and field. Indoor track I ran the 55-meter dash and was phenomenally slow, and I also threw shot put and was not anything special. Track and field I was a 100-meter dash runner (more like jogger) and also did shot put here as well. I did those for my first three years and during the spring of my sophomore year the coach saw me starting to put in more effort, so he moved me from the sprinting squad to the distance team, and by the end of the season, I had a mile time of 5:56! Now I knew I would need to improve that but first came soccer, so it went to the wayside. soccer came and went and again I was no good, and so came indoor track, which involved a lot of training to get back to my previous level, and by the end of outdoor track my junior year I had shaved my mile down to 5:10, and this time I was determined to run a sub 5, so I decided to quite a soccer and try out cross country, I trained for miles upon miles upon miles during that summer leading into my senior year, and during the season was loading up more and more miles. We got to indoor track and the first meet I ran a 5:07! Already a new personal record! Training for the next meet I managed to get injured... and did not heal until the very beginning of outdoor track, a substaintial set back. I started training and as it turned out, the way I was healing my previous injury resulted in the exact same injurt on the opposite side. This time I streamlined recovery and ran the mile for the first time in months, coming in second with... 5:48. I knew if I wanted a sub 5 I needed to train hard, and fast in the next month and a half or I might never get it. Every day listening to my body, recovering correctly, and working up to it I cut down the time, first 5:23, 5:12, 5:03... and what could have possibly been my last race... 4:58. I ran another 2 races sub 5 before the season ended, and they were exciting. But track and running has taught me a lot and really helped ti develop the person I am today.