Signed up for a local race for a confidence boost prior to one I'm training for cause I figured id place..A couple of guys who I run with and always beat me found out and signed up to basically knock me off of placing...
Coming off injury I have no shot to beat these guys should I still run it or just go do a tempo runand beat my time last week?
I'm a mental loser.
There is a 49 year old in our running community who does nothing but run. Well, he works, but he had no other interests, no children and is a total jerk.
At a race last summer, he didn't too well and was passed the last 200 meters by a female Kenyan. At the awards banquet, he was pounding the table in frustration, saying how he was going to "train his brains out and pound her in the ground next year."
If he only saw the people laughing at him. What a joke.
That guy and what defines a real man.
Classics.
yes, we know. shut your piehole.
If you choose to run with Pure Hate, you choose not to be fixated on others. You choose to be fixated on yourself.
It doesn’t matter if you lose or win in a race. What matters is that you beat your own self.
For example, I run because I had a lot of cringey life moments and I want to purge myself of it. I also run to change who I am.
If you ever drink a lot, you’ll get it - just like in Crime & Punishment, by Dostoevsky.
Just remember though, we humans are slower than dogs. ?
Ever try racing a puppy Greyhound or German Shepherd? At 8 months old they can already beat you in a sprint or even 400m.
I gutted it out and did the race. I ended up getting 2nd and beat the guy who signed up to beat me..Edged it out by 15 seconds.
Moral of the story stay positive and thats why we race cause you never know.
Made the guy so mad he went out and ran the same distance afterwards faster than his race time and then bragged about it after to our running group.
What a punk but people ate it up and I kind of fell back into oblivion as if it discredited my race.
Loserrunner wrote:
I gutted it out and did the race. I ended up getting 2nd and beat the guy who signed up to beat me..Edged it out by 15 seconds.
Moral of the story stay positive and thats why we race cause you never know.
Made the guy so mad he went out and ran the same distance afterwards faster than his race time and then bragged about it after to our running group.
What a punk but people ate it up and I kind of fell back into oblivion as if it discredited my race.
Did the song I posted help?
Song #3 on the playlist