Isolation

One of the acations that I felt isolated in was the British Columbia high school provincial’s for mountain biking. It was my first-year racing and I decided to go just for fun not to get any good positions. The day before I did a few practice laps and felt comfortable. When we got there it was cloudy and the trails where in good conditions. After the start I was feeling good I was in mid pack but as I got to the top of the mountain, I started to feel exhausted. There was only down hill from there and no climbing left. I was making my way down as it started to rain then hail then back to rain it continued to alternate for the rest of the race. It wouldn’t have been that bad if it where into for the fact that I had a long section with no proper draining built in and after the train got muddy it turned a seven to eight-minute section in to a fifteen plus section. This is the point where the feeling of isolation hit me, I was not able to see anyone in front of me nor could I see or hear any one behind me. The temperature was dropping low and I was jus t waring a pair of bike shorts and a short sleeve jersey. I would have quit the race then if and go home if I where able to but the only way I could go was forward I was in terrible weather for The rest of the race. It’s definitely a less serious isolation story then most peoples but for me I was one of the few acations that I true felt isolated.

This was a situation where I chose to have the chance to become isolated but most of the time this is not the way that people get to that emotion. More commonly then not its placed upon use through others. The 1950’s saw a large surplus in this because of the house of unamerican activities comity ( HUAC ). They were the searching common American for communist ties. A writer named Arthur Miller was able to capture the extent of the HUAC though his book the Crucible