The Lucky Mistake

19 The Lucky Mistake My older sister is a runner. She has always loved to run. She runs the 10-kilometre race. She's a great runner. She used to be a pretty good sprinter, but one day all of that changed because of a little mistake she made. She went to practice carly in the morning. She was about to take off her running shoes, when she realized she had forgotten her sprinting shoes. Sprinting shoes are special because they're small, light and have spikes on the bottom. When her coach found out that she had forgotten her sprinting shoes, he got mad. As a punishment, he ordered her to run laps around the track. So, off she went. Soon, she was running with other people who were on their long- distance practice runs. The runners were moving fast. It surprised the coach to see that this girl could keep up. The long-distance coach asked the sprinting coach, “ Who is that?"

“ That's one of my sprinters, " he said. The two coaches were shocked to see the group of runners coming around the final corner with my sister in the lead! Another girl was close to her for a while, but because of her sprinting ability, my sister seemed to just pull away from her. Her first time running a long-distance race and she came in first! The two coaches approached my sister. They were about to congratulate her when they looked down and realized she wasn't wearing any shoes! " Well, you told me to run and I thought you meant right away, so I just got up and ran, " she explained. " I can't believe how comfortable it is to run without my feet stuffed inside those little sprinting shoes. " From that moment on, my sister's sprinting days were over. She was a natural long-distance runner. She works hard and hopes to go to the Olympics one day. Who knows what might happen? Who would have guessed that a little mistake would take my sister from being a good sprinter to being a great long-distance runner?