['Have you ever prepare for something for a long period of time. And it still not turn out how you wanted it to.', 'Yeah I guess that happens every once in a while.  Something you went through recently?', 'A track meet I had been training for, for bascially my entire life.']
Oh that's too bad.  I'm assuming you didn't win?
I had trained hard all year for this one meet ( NCAA championship) I knew that no matter what happened on that day. If someone beat me they were just better and that I had done everything I could have.