Feeling lost and frustrated about a race. Need advice moving on and staying positive.

Carl Lewis at Quarterback wrote:

Sorry your race went poorly. It sucks, but you can’t do sh!t about it. Soon enough, you’ll be working 60 hours a week and you will wish you had the time to train to run as well as you did in this sub-par race. Loved ones will die and some people your age will get terminal cancers and other completely unfair life cards; you will watch them die agonizing deaths. You will probably have at least one relationship end in sad, emotionally damaging fashion and it will take some time for you to emerge from this. You will experience this like a death in the family. Close friends will move all over the globe and you will be left to figure out life in the solitude of your own soul. The world will also be visited by various cataclysms some of which will touch you. Your house might burn down, your city might be bombed, there may be a nuclear catastrophe, or biochemical warfare waged against your people; your rights as a citizen of your country may be revoked in part or in full.

You should enjoy this moment. You are young and healthy enough to run times that 99% of people on this planet cannot dream of running b/c they are either too old, too unhealthy, too distraught or too busy. Buck up.

Carl Lewis at Quarterback wrote:

Sorry your race went poorly. It sucks, but you can’t do sh!t about it. Soon enough, you’ll be working 60 hours a week and you will wish you had the time to train to run as well as you did in this sub-par race. Loved ones will die and some people your age will get terminal cancers and other completely unfair life cards; you will watch them die agonizing deaths. You will probably have at least one relationship end in sad, emotionally damaging fashion and it will take some time for you to emerge from this. You will experience this like a death in the family. Close friends will move all over the globe and you will be left to figure out life in the solitude of your own soul. The world will also be visited by various cataclysms some of which will touch you. Your house might burn down, your city might be bombed, there may be a nuclear catastrophe, or biochemical warfare waged against your people; your rights as a citizen of your country may be revoked in part or in full.

You should enjoy this moment. You are young and healthy enough to run times that 99% of people on this planet cannot dream of running b/c they are either too old, too unhealthy, too distraught or too busy. Buck up.

i am the mushroom man wrote:

Carl Lewis at Quarterback wrote:

Sorry your race went poorly. It sucks, but you can’t do sh!t about it. Soon enough, you’ll be working 60 hours a week and you will wish you had the time to train to run as well as you did in this sub-par race. Loved ones will die and some people your age will get terminal cancers and other completely unfair life cards; you will watch them die agonizing deaths. You will probably have at least one relationship end in sad, emotionally damaging fashion and it will take some time for you to emerge from this. You will experience this like a death in the family. Close friends will move all over the globe and you will be left to figure out life in the solitude of your own soul. The world will also be visited by various cataclysms some of which will touch you. Your house might burn down, your city might be bombed, there may be a nuclear catastrophe, or biochemical warfare waged against your people; your rights as a citizen of your country may be revoked in part or in full.

You should enjoy this moment. You are young and healthy enough to run times that 99% of people on this planet cannot dream of running b/c they are either too old, too unhealthy, too distraught or too busy. Buck up.

Lmao this is one of the most cringeworthy things I have ever read on this website

i am the mushroom man wrote:

Carl Lewis at Quarterback wrote:

Sorry your race went poorly. It sucks, but you can’t do sh!t about it. Soon enough, you’ll be working 60 hours a week and you will wish you had the time to train to run as well as you did in this sub-par race. Loved ones will die and some people your age will get terminal cancers and other completely unfair life cards; you will watch them die agonizing deaths. You will probably have at least one relationship end in sad, emotionally damaging fashion and it will take some time for you to emerge from this. You will experience this like a death in the family. Close friends will move all over the globe and you will be left to figure out life in the solitude of your own soul. The world will also be visited by various cataclysms some of which will touch you. Your house might burn down, your city might be bombed, there may be a nuclear catastrophe, or biochemical warfare waged against your people; your rights as a citizen of your country may be revoked in part or in full.

You should enjoy this moment. You are young and healthy enough to run times that 99% of people on this planet cannot dream of running b/c they are either too old, too unhealthy, too distraught or too busy. Buck up.

Lmao this is one of the most cringeworthy things I have ever read on this website

xcrunner56 wrote:

Hello,

I recently just ran the worst race of my entire life (5k). I can normally run a moderate, even easy, run at that pace. My half marathon pace is 20 sec faster than that. My time was 3-4 minutes behind my PR.

I had been feeling really good during the workouts. They didn't even feel that hard as I thought they would. I devoted the whole day of the race to eating carefully and hydrating a lot.

I start the race at a mile pace I normally go out in. Let me mention that during the warm ups my quad tensed up (now it is very sore today). Basically, somewhere around the 1.5 mile mark I felt horrible. I finished near dead last and had to walk three times. I know I should've went out slower the first mile, and then I mentally psyched myself out.

I just don't know how to move on. I am super duper surprised that it went that badly after running really fast during workouts. I'm also kind of embarrassed for some reason. I KNOW if I ran it today I'd be faster, I just wish more than anything I could redo it. I have like no confidence for the next race.

xcrunner56 wrote:

Hello,

I recently just ran the worst race of my entire life (5k). I can normally run a moderate, even easy, run at that pace. My half marathon pace is 20 sec faster than that. My time was 3-4 minutes behind my PR.

I had been feeling really good during the workouts. They didn't even feel that hard as I thought they would. I devoted the whole day of the race to eating carefully and hydrating a lot.

I start the race at a mile pace I normally go out in. Let me mention that during the warm ups my quad tensed up (now it is very sore today). Basically, somewhere around the 1.5 mile mark I felt horrible. I finished near dead last and had to walk three times. I know I should've went out slower the first mile, and then I mentally psyched myself out.

I just don't know how to move on. I am super duper surprised that it went that badly after running really fast during workouts. I'm also kind of embarrassed for some reason. I KNOW if I ran it today I'd be faster, I just wish more than anything I could redo it. I have like no confidence for the next race.

Carl Lewis at Quarterback wrote:

Sorry your race went poorly. It sucks, but you can’t do sh!t about it. Soon enough, you’ll be working 60 hours a week and you will wish you had the time to train to run as well as you did in this sub-par race. Loved ones will die and some people your age will get terminal cancers and other completely unfair life cards; you will watch them die agonizing deaths. You will probably have at least one relationship end in sad, emotionally damaging fashion and it will take some time for you to emerge from this. You will experience this like a death in the family. Close friends will move all over the globe and you will be left to figure out life in the solitude of your own soul. The world will also be visited by various cataclysms some of which will touch you. Your house might burn down, your city might be bombed, there may be a nuclear catastrophe, or biochemical warfare waged against your people; your rights as a citizen of your country may be revoked in part or in full.

You should enjoy this moment. You are young and healthy enough to run times that 99% of people on this planet cannot dream of running b/c they are either too old, too unhealthy, too distraught or too busy. Buck up.