Inter school cross country

Some of Te Ngahere and Paihia School got to go to Inter school cross country.  To go you had to qualify by coming first, second or third in your school from your age group.  Inter school cross country was held at Waikare School which took a while to get to and the course was long. My age group had to run across a field a bit. Then turn right run more then turn right again run even more then run around a fence that had been going from the second right. Then we had to go diagonally right and you were at the start of the hill. The hill was steep and a few people were struggling to get up it because they’d used their sprint at the start. Because of that I was coming second, and I didn’t realise until I looked up when I was climbing the hill. Instead of running, I half crawled, half ran because it was much faster and easier. Then there was a flat. Everyone ran down the hill but I walked down even though everyone was overtaking me. There were enough people who rolled down the hill and got hurt. Then at the bottom of the hill there was a turn another turn a whole bunch of mud where lots of people got their shoes stuck in then another turn and out by the carpark. Next you had to run out into the field again sprint and onto the gravel sprint more and finish. I placed 7th and I was proud of it.