"Your biggest challenge isn't someone else. It's the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells 'CAN'T", but you don't listen. You just push harder. And then you hear the vo...ice whisper 'can'. And you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are."
I could go on and on about what I learned during this training, but I feel like it would be repititive...welll, let me humor you all:
1. when there is a will, there is a way
2. nothing can be done without a good support system - family, team mates, coaches, friends (in random order of course!). As coach sid would say "all for one and one for all". God, I am going to miss coach sid!!
3. You should listen to your body - that thing knows you even better than you think you know yourself
4. that book "blue train" or something - the story of the train trying to pull the heavy load up the mountain chugging along and saying "i think I can, I think I can, I think I can" and then you did!!
5. running is not about competing with other people, it's about overcoming that belief that you cannot achieve your set goals. Running is very personal, it's an internal competition above and beyond anything else
That's all the profound thinking for now :-) Thanks to Jup, I am seeing a physical therapist and I feel a lot better. More work to be done, but this pain will be overcome and I will enjoy November 1st for sure!
Weather forecast is "Brilliant sunshine" and 60degrees F. Should be perfect for those tight short of mine :-)
Cheers mates
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