u/MissionWild5830

Okay, I'm in 7th grade (just turned 13) and I wanted to do cross country next year. Ive never run before and have never practiced or trained cross country and only run a mile like once lol. That mile was today and I ran a 7:29 making me the fastest girl in my grade (I go to a small school with some kinda unathletic people so wasn't hard to beat.) the girl behind me goes a 7:40 so a pretty decent gap. Do you think I have good potential to be good at cross country or should I not get my hopes up too high?

I get made fun of a lot for having bad posture and I feel like whenever I walk past mirror it's really not any worse than anyone else's so I don't quite get it. Every time I look into fixing my posture I always hear the same thing "strengthen your p back muscles🙄" As someone who swims competitively at an elite level for 2 hours a day, I would say I have a very strong back😅. I was wondering if there is a better way to fix this and also if maybe my back is like just too big? I know that question sounds stupid but my back is larger than most people's because its muscular so maybe my posture is more apparent because it sticks out more. Can someone let me know if that's a thing? I really hate my swimmers body though because my arms look so big and I have friends who always squish them. In photos them and my shoulders look so disproportional compared to the rest of my body and it really bothers me, why are my shoulders so much wider than the rest of my body? This kind of turned into a vent but if anyone has any thoughts on the posture thing that would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!