Coach Rhodes Memory

The best memory I have of coach rhodes happened during my junior year. It was the beginning of track season, and it was also the most dreaded day of the whole season! It was the 50 sec run day! So to make it even worse I had forgot all about it, and ate allsups burritos during lunch hour. We get out on the track and when I see the cones set up I went from a perfect mood to an absolute feeling of sickness. We started warming up, stretching, and listening to coach. He kept saying "Now fellas, this right here will show me who has heart, and who don't." So when my time came I took off like I was running the 200m dash. I could keep hearing coach rhodes saying "That away McQueen! That away! Keep pumping them arms!" So when I got to about the 300m mark I thought I was about spent, but coach is what kept me going. I could see him in the middle of the straight-away, running backwards, waving his arm, and he was saying "come on McQueen, come on!" So I had this feeling like I never had before. All of my exhaustion was just overcome by adrenaline, and I ended up making it to the 395m mark! Only 5m away from making it all the way around! Coach Rhodes has to be the most encouraging man I've ever known.