lknavrin wrote:
Do you know how hard it is to maintain your high school level in college when it is that good? Hart, Ewert, Thorvaldson, Culbreath the list goes on. It is what it is. leave them alone.
I was a good runner coming out of high school and was excited to see where I could go in college. But I went through a lot of crazy mental health stuff in the winter of my freshman year and my running took an absolute nosedive. Back then there weren't a lot of mental health resources either. After that mentally, and physically it became impossible to build myself back up. It took all four years just to get back to where I was as a senior in high school....as a senior in college--which isn't that good by college standards.
It is what it is. I'm proud of myself for not giving up. Every runner has a different journey in the sport.
Mental health? If you're trained to run a certain pace, mental health has very little to do with it...at least it sure didn't when I ran in 2000. Rarely heard the term. If you had a bad race, you sucked and tried better the next time. Mental health?