My older sister is arunner. She has always loved to run. She runs the 10-kilometre race. She's agreat runner. She used to be a pretty good sprinter (短跑选手), but one day all of thatchanged because of a little mistake she made.
She went to practice earlyin the morning. She was about to take off her running shoes when she found shehad forgotten her sprinting shoes. Sprinting shoes are special because they'resmall, light and have spikes on the bottom.
When her coach found outthat she had forgotten her sprinting shoes he got mad. He ordered her to runlaps around the track. So, off she went. Soon, she was running with otherpeople who were on their long-distance practice runs.
The runners were movingfast. It surprised the coach to see that this girl could keep up. The long-distancecoach asked the sprinting coach, "Who is that?" "That's one ofmy sprinters," he said. The two coaches were shocked to see the group ofrunners coming around the final corner with my sister in the lead!
Another girl was close toher for a while, but because of her sprinting ability, my sister seemed to justpull away from her. Her first time running a long-distance race and she came infirst! The two coaches approached my sister. They were about to congratulateher when they looked down and realized she wasn't wearing any shoes!
"Well, you told me torun and I thought you meant right away, so I just got up and ran," sheexplained. "I can't believe how comfortable it is to run without my feetstuffed inside those little sprinting shoes."
From that moment on, mysister's sprinting days were over. She was a natural long distance runner. Sheworks hard and hopes to go to the Olympics one day. Who knows what mighthappen?
Who would have guessed thata little mistake would take my sister from being a good sprinter to being agreat long- distance runner?