I am writing an essay for a scholarship, the prompt is about lessons that your sport (long distance running) has taught you. I'm hoping that some of you can help give me some ideas for this essay.
I am writing an essay for a scholarship, the prompt is about lessons that your sport (long distance running) has taught you. I'm hoping that some of you can help give me some ideas for this essay.
Distance running has taught me that there are no shortcuts. If you want to improve, get the most out of yourself, and experience success & the satisfaction that accompanies it, you need to put in the work yourself. No one else can do it for you.
I have (finally) discovered that I could work just as hard as Kejelcha, Centro, Shelby, etc. and I'll never do anywhere close to what they've done in their careers. Becoming a successful runner is winning the gene lottery.
Genetics is more important than hard work. It's not what you want to hear but it's the truth.
Never quit when things are not going 100%. Things may not be going 100% for your competition either. It ain’t over till its over. Never ease up at the line.
writing essay said: the prompt is about lessons that your sport (long distance running) has taught you. I'm hoping that some of you can help give me some ideas for this essay.
long distance running has taught me that in order to succeed you have to do the work yourself. you can't go on a forum and ask other people to do your training for you.
cheers.
One never knows how far your body can take you until you put in the hard work.
Also that in general we are creatures of entropy, the daily discipline it takes to be a good runner applies to life and can take one far.
Also when the running habit is formed, it's easier to keep it up.
It's taught me that I'm 100% responsible for my training - it really is all down to you. Also, that consistency pays off - keep chipping away at the same thing in a thoughtful way and you make progress. Both lessons apply outside running as well, and that's a useful lesson.
Patience and that there are no shortcuts in long distance running. You get out what you put in. Sometimes it's just not your day and you have to accept that. I would say overall the biggest thing I have learned since starting just two years ago is that you can prove a lot to yourself you never knew when you weren't running in terms of what you can endure. Outside of that, I just enjoy eating a ton of sweets and not feeling so bad.
I am fighting a family history of Alzheimer/ dementia (even if I have no indication I have it myself.
Research has shown that excercise and in special hard excercise producing lactate stimulates the brain in older individuals.
One of many links on the subject below.
http://sciencenordic.com/lactate-can-aid-brain-cell-production
You meet the nicest people whilst running and in the running community.
You're asking other people what running has taught them for your own essay?
How about:
Running has taught me nothing so I had to ask other people. Give my scholarship to them. I'm such a moran that I thought there was a correct answer so I tried to cheat. I assume you are stupid enough to fall for it.
That human capacity to endure (heat, cold, dehydration, pain) is WAY more than ppl think.
Every time I see a runner w/a camelback, I wanna ask if s/he is doing some sort of unsupported ultrathon.
writingessay wrote:
I am writing an essay for a scholarship, the prompt is about lessons that your sport (long distance running) has taught you. I'm hoping that some of you can help give me some ideas for this essay.
That I have come up with one of the greatest training systems in history.
Speed Kill's.
writingessay wrote:
I am writing an essay for a scholarship, the prompt is about lessons that your sport (long distance running) has taught you. I'm hoping that some of you can help give me some ideas for this essay.
Running quiets my mind while opening up my perspective after the fact. You don't have to be running to the extreme to get the benefits needed relative to your life goals. Running brings all senses together, for me at least.
There's something about the endeavor that appeals to many people for their own reasons, and that's unique within itself.
Good advice on this thread so far. Let me add:
1) You're never as good as your best day nor as bad as your worst day. (don't get too crazy enthusiastic in your training and ramp up too much after a good race/workout or too far down after a bad race/workout)
2) never trust a fart.
cotton shirt wrote:
writing essay said: the prompt is about lessons that your sport (long distance running) has taught you. I'm hoping that some of you can help give me some ideas for this essay.
long distance running has taught me that in order to succeed you have to do the work yourself. you can't go on a forum and ask other people to do your training for you.
cheers.
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