Assignment 21- Kayla Conrad

The biggest challenge I have faced in my life is actually physical. Last January, my dad and I set a goal to compete a Tough Mudder. Personally, I had seen my dad complete 5 of these in the past and I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to compete myself. Last year was the year, the year I turned 16, which meant I was finally old enough. My dad and I’s relationship has not always been the best. We’er Not good at communicating so that makes a relationship pretty tough but we had finally found our thing. We trained for months from January until September 4 times a week, running 6 miles straight but that wasn’t even close to what the actual tough mudder is. The real thing consists of 10-12 miles depending on the location, with 25+ obstacles to test you physical and mental strength, to push your body to the absolute limit, and keep pushing.
What I discovered in the training process was that not many people believed I could complete. My grandparents brother’s family members and even friends didn’t believe I could accomplish this daunting challenge. But the one person who did, my dad. He stuck with me through it all pushing me to my personal limits even before the big day came. We even made a shirt that said one more that included all the names of every single person  Who said that I couldn’t do it. Every time we trained I wore that shirt and every time I wanted to quit I do one more for one of the names on the shirts. When the day finally came we drove down to Tennessee to repair our selves for what weird face but I found of this journey is not just a challenge of my personal strike but a building up my relationship with my father we had been able to bond over something that no one else could well also pushing ourselves the limit . The actual challenge was just as bad as I had imagined I wanted to give up about 10 times from jumping into ice water to running through electrical wires I didn’t think I could do it but as I challenge myself and thought about the one more I kept pushing. The best feeling was crushing that finish line and getting my headband improving every single person on my shirt wrong that I could do this and I had conquered my biggest obstacle