My Speed

My Track Journey (How It All Started)

I first got into sports for one reason: to keep my mind busy.
I needed something positive to focus on, something to pull me away from bad thoughts and negative energy. Track wasn’t about medals or times at first—it was just my escape.

When I started, I was a distance runner, and I’m gonna be honest… I wasn’t that good. I struggled, I was usually toward the back, and nobody was looking at me like “yeah, he got potential.” But I stayed with it.

As I got older and more serious about track, I switched into sprint training, and that’s when everything changed.

In about 3 years, I went from being one of the last runners to becoming an AAU Junior Olympic Qualifier, running times that people never thought I would. Even I didn’t expect it at first. That’s when I learned that progress doesn’t always make sense until it happens.

The journey hasn’t been easy though.

For a long time, I was nervous at every meet. Like real nervous. I overthought my event so much that I would literally throw up before races. My mind would be running laps before my body even touched the track. I cared so much about performing right that it felt like pressure was sitting on my chest every time I stepped on the line.

After 2 years of throwing up and not advancing my senior summer is where I took off. My season ended at my AAU Junior Olympic meet which was the last meet, and I honestly thought that was going to be the end of my track journey too. The crazy part is… I didn’t even feel “hurt” until the moment it mattered most. Right when I pushed out the blocks, I felt my hamstring grab, like my body was warning me that something wasn’t right. In that moment, it felt like everything I worked for was about to disappear.

I remember thinking, “This might really be it.”
Like I was about to walk away for good.

But what I didn’t know at the time… was that that wasn’t the end of my story.
That was just the part where the story got real.

I can’t say too much more right now, because there’s a bigger story coming.
I’m working on a book called You Didn’t Believe… So I Became Proof, and when it drops… it’ll explain everything.

For now, just know this:
Track taught me discipline, patience, and how to keep running even when people doubt you.

Stay tuned.