Cross Creek Blogs

It is not about winning or losing.  It is about having fun and striving to be the best athlete you can be.  Of course, winning is fun but it has nothing to do with your overall performance as a runner. 

            I have a few examples of this.  I beat my personal record in the long jump.  Now how is that not cool?  I jumped 17’ 6” which was really great for me.  Another good example is the 4×400 relay.  It was the first time we ran it as a team and we got third place.  I was so proud of myself and the team.

            Another thought is this.  Don’t listen to the spectator.  He does not matter.  If you are doing what you need to do and going as hard and as fast as you can, then that is the only thing that matters.  Theodor Roosevelt once said:”It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out where the strong stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marked with dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat…for those who have had to fight for it, life has truly a flavor the protected shall never know.”

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by admin
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