Dealing with an injury that has caused me to drop out of races. Pretty depressed about how my senior xc season ended.
Dealing with an injury that has caused me to drop out of races. Pretty depressed about how my senior xc season ended.
3 days.
About 3 minutes.
Honestly, Racing isn't life.
Remember that unless you broke your leg, you could have finished. But you did the SMART thing and dropped out.
Which means you'll be better from it down the road.
Don't think your XC career is over because you're a senior. There are always ways to find a group to competitively train with in college.
Often disappointed, but only once in 40 years racing can I remember being really down for a couple of hours. When I was about 16 I lost a regional championship track 5k that on form I should have won. Many times I was depressed when our local soccer team lost, though.
i had been working my hardest to come back from an injury and hadn't raced in 6 months. i raced a two mile in spikes and when i finished was unable to walk. not being able to walk was what made it the worst, looking back i should have gotten crutches but my winter break started and i basically layed in bed for 2 weeks freaking out about how i was back where i started with my injury. so yeah 2 weeks then getting back to school helped and to my surprise my foot healed faster than the last time and i was running again with only 3 weeks off.
I give myself 24 hours to completely mope and be depressed. Then I come back even stronger.
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i had been working my hardest to come back from an injury and hadn't raced in 6 months. i raced a two mile in spikes and when i finished was unable to walk. not being able to walk was what made it the worst, looking back i should have gotten crutches but my winter break started and i basically layed in bed for 2 weeks freaking out about how i was back where i started with my injury. so yeah 2 weeks then getting back to school helped and to my surprise my foot healed faster than the last time and i was running again with only 3 weeks off.
You must be a teenager. They don't capitalize any word at the start of sentences, and especially don't capitalize "i" when talking about themselves. It's the cool thing to do.
I know of a very strong program (many state titles) that had a policy of only brooding after a bad race for like 5 minutes or so. I wish I could give you the exact time but I do not recall. It might have been 10 minutes. This policy was also for the coaches.
What good does feeling sad accomplish we all must look forward? That is why the front windshield on a car is larger than the back windshield. We do not need to look back nearly as much and will never get anywhere if we do.
The long run puts the tiger in the cat.