How to write The “I” Ending of your article?

If you are writing a first-person article, “There I Was, Running the Boston Marathon,” and if you begin with the “I” of the author as participant, then the “I” of the author is certainly appropriate at the end of the article.

If the “I” of the author does not appear anywhere else in the article, it is usually inappropriate and jarring to the reader for the “I” viewpoint of the author to appear for the first time at the end of the article.

Ray Blount article, “Blunder Road,” from Men’s Journal, is in the tradition of George Plimpton’s inept-amateur-as- athlete books. In “Blunder Road,” Blount attends the Skip Barber Racing School to learn to drive a formula race car.

Of course he does everything wrong, including never learning quite well enough how to anticipate a high-speed turn.

His end:

But I want them to know this: The next time I drove my Jetta on the highway, I found that if concentrated could look further up the road than usual and plot my course smoothly through a series of turns. Well, two turns.

At one point, as swung all the way to the far edge of the right lane and-unwound smoothly back to the far edge of the left, felt something. A fleeting connection with some Platonic vector matrix stretching from Detroit to heaven.