05.25.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:57 pm by Alex
It’s been about five months now since my heal started to bother me. Since then, I have missed many days of training and many miles that could have seriously benefited to my performances thus far. It’s hard to accept such a condition. Having never really been injured myself, I don’t know how to deal with the situation other then wait it out and hope that things will soon get better. Fighting through pain is one thing, but fighting with your head is even harder. In a situation like this one, there are many choices in front of me. Most of them do not have a happy ending. Influences are strong and it seems like I’m coming at the end of my rope on this one. Or so I thaught ! For the past three days, things are starting to change. My heal is all of a sudden, starting to heel. It’s too early for me to say that things are turning in the right direction, but in a sense, they really are! Why is it that we often need something bad to see what is good? There are so many things that relate to this: why do we need rain to enjoy the sunshine? why do we need solitude to enjoy company? why do we need thirst to enjoy water? and why do we need pain to feel better? There is a good quote in the new batman movie, “Why do we fall”? The answer is, “So we can learn to pick oursleves back up”! I think that this is true of many things. You can either stay on the ground or pick yourself back up and learn not to fall in such a way ever again. It took a bad water pit to teach me this. This past tuesday, I fell on a water jump. I was coming full speed at the hurdle and my foot slipted, I hit my tibia on the hurdle and fell face first in the pit. Two things could have happened right then and there. Either I was going to feel sorry for myself and dress my bruised body, or I would stand right back up, get back to the line and make that water jump. It happened in a flash!!! I didn’t even think. I saw black and I wanted to see light. I got back on the line and made that jump. Ever since that day, my heel is getting better everyday and I am hopeful that I might actually win over this injury. There will always be hurdles to clear in my life and sometimes, I will fall. But if a get right back up after everyone of those hurdles, I will learn never to fall again.
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05.05.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:37 am by Alex
I went to the movies yesterday to see the new movie Spiderman 3. In the storie, spiderman is faced with this Alien force called Venom that transforms him into an extreme spiderman if you will. It basically gives him greater power. The problem is, his attitude beggins to change and his life starts to crumble because of it. In the end, Spidy makes a choice. I won’t tell you what that choice is in case you haven’t seen it yet, but I think it’s a good one. We all know that to be great, you have to make some sacrifices. There are no short cuts unless you decide to intake some “Venom”, and most often then not, the road we take can at times get rocky. But I think there is something we all need to ask ourselves, “Do I have what it takes to be great”? It’s a very simple question after all! think about it for a second and make a descision. You’ll find that the answer is “yes”!!! We all have natural Venom inside us and only we, are capable of using it in the right way. This may be a bit extreme but I still ask myself this very question from time to time. Faced with the threat of death and winning a race againts the best of the best being the only way out, “would you choose someone else to run the race in your place”? Pretend that you are at the very peak of your game before answering that question. I think your answer will tell you the kind of person you really are. Remember, the person you choose to run the race may stumble and fall on their way to the finish line. Who will stand up to get back in the race and how fast will they do it? Remember, your life is on the line. Thing is, only you are capable of winning that race!!! Noyone runs to replace your talent or your position in life. If you believe in yourself, you will be a winner! What is past is past, don’t let it dictate your future. Everyday is a chance to better yourself and help someone else. Embrace who you are and know that you are somebody!!! Run fast, let the Venom out.
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05.04.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:08 pm by Alex
It seems to be the main theme in my life lately. I want more money, I want more sleep, I want more of this and I want more of that. I can’t seem to be content with what is given to me. I have everything in the world to be great and yet I want more, more and some more. I was looking at a steeple race from the Cardinal invite this past week. My Friend Andy Smith ran an easy looking 8:35! That’s 30sec. Faster then my second place at Penn.!!! So why can’t I just be happy with my own race and call it for what it is, “my race”!? After all, I wasn’t there at the Cardinal invite, I was at Penn Instead. Would the result have been different out there as opposed to where I raced? Probably so, but I know one thing is for sure. I wouldn’t have the desire to run 8:35 as a do today had I gone to California. In the end, I’m happy with the result. Sure I could have run faster, but I think results are not as indicative as one may think. I know I’m in shape to run fast and therefore I will. It may not be this weekend or the next, but one day, I will step on that track and all the preparation, all the waiting to succeed, and be great will be answered. Less then perfect races may after all, be a blessing in disguise. They unlike good races, are the only ones that leave you pissed off! And there aint nothing more dangerous then a pissed off runner who’s in shape! So maybe wanting more isn’t so bad after all. I think one has to be careful of what he really wants. Some things are already given and you have to be content with just that. As a good friend once told me. No one deserves anything. We work for what we have and that’s why we have what we have.
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