Just a fun week of tapering and trying to stay out of trouble. Long discussion with one of my runners tonight about her springtime plans. Bottom line she is going to have to start from scratch after she gets over some injuries. Sometimes people just don't want to listen and learn thing the hard way. I tried. Now she gets it.
Typical taper week in which I am feeling tired, antsy and eating like crazy. Light running and taking even the short runs easy. I have done a touch of speed work but past that I am playing it very safe. On a good note my legs are starting to feel more springy with each passing day. Today I ran some local trails and just enjoyed being outside in the sun.
Today on my run I was contemplating some of the more challenging and nasty training runs these past two months. There was one in particular where my amigo and I wandered off into some dangerous areas away from the city and had to be careful in regards to which way we returned. He was really pissed off about making the mistake as he was on point. My thought was that nothing bad had happened yet and at least nobody was shooting at us (yet). In the end we made it back unscathed but he was nearly inconsolable. I let him be as I figured that he was taking the situation personally and internalizing it and making it all about himself, the mistake, the wrong turn, all of it. Anyway, we haven't talked much about it since, no reason too actually. But when it was happening I kept thiniking just how un-warrior like he had behaved. Of course his youth bears a bit of the blame but regardless... lessons to be learned were all around that day.
It just reminded me that a warrior, a true warrior does not have time for self-pity. He does not have the luxury at all. All that that he can do is take full responsibility for his actions which led to his present situation and then make the best decisions that he can, still taking responsibility for those decisions as well and work his way out of it.
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