I really wanna quit cross country- yet my parents won't let me?

Question

I really wanna quit cross country. I have no fun nor am I any good. My coach doesn't know what she is doing, so we have to run mile repeats (3 of them) on this cement track near my school. This may not seem tough to some of you, but it is tough for us out-of-shape middle schoolers. This gave me really bad shin splints and she is going to make us do this once every week. My shins can't take that. Also, I was top runner returning but than my coach recruited a bunch of lungs on legs, who are cocky and very lazy. I get so sick of hearing them talk about themselves. And our coach makes us cheer for our teammates... during the workouts!!! And one time my coach made me run when my shin splints were bad, so everyone was cheering me on. It was embarassing. My heart isn't in this sport, and I can't enjoy a good hobby of mine. So I brought up the idea of quitting to my parents and they started screaming at me. "you aren't not f$$cking going to quit." I am running out of space, so I will post more

I am really upset. I can't take another day of this, and it has only been 3 weeks. NOTE: this is a new coach, because my old coach wanted to coach the high school team.
I would really like to quit but two of my three coaches are my teachers and I often see my third coach in the hallway so I would prefer not to get myself kicked off the team.

This season has caused me to hate myself and running.

Answer 1

Fake an injury

Answer 2

I know that parents can be tough sometimes. My parents were the same way when I was playing high school hockey. except it's not that I didn't want to play it's just that I didn't want to play the non contact spring league.... stupid....

If I were you I would stick with it. I know it's painfull now but once you get stong and you become one of those lungs on legs, running is actually extreemly theriputic.

But if you hate it that much then maybe you should just tell your parents that you'd rather try out for another sport.

You shouldn't be embarrased though. Noone wants you to fail, i'm sure your coach and everyone on your team just wants you to get better, cept for those cocky kids but hey guess what? if running is their lives then they arnt going anywhere fast. no pun intended. so dont worry bout those kids.