Running isn’t just about taking a long ride showing
your expensive last season sneakers, boasting about your personal best, making
state or national teams, getting a scholarship and winning any medal. There’s
more to this than meets the eye.
Running is what helps you to discover who you really
are.
How we run, it’s exactly how we are. There’re many
things in our personal lives that we don’t handle as it should be, so we just
decide to ignore them or even worst, to hide them. But, the river has to run:
somehow you have to let it go, consciously or unconsciously.
It’s there where running appears as that catharsis
technique that you need to take that out of you.
So when you, your coach or the people around you
identify any problem with the way you run, don’t blame the shoes, don’t blame
the track, don’t blame the size of your shorts…Go and look what is wrong in
your daily life!
Try to find what is making you raise your jaw when you
shouldn’t, what is it that makes your neck to be tensioned, why your steps are
shorter or longer, why you’ve got a hump while you run, what keeps your mind so
busy that you can’t react on time, why it’s so difficult to get ahead of the
race, why you hold your pace to avoid fatigue, why you look so forced?
You don’t need to have vast knowledge in Psychology to
know what your mind is expressing through your body language. And what a better
way to do it than running!
When you decide to look at running as a liberating
experience, you start to see things that you didn’t ever imagine to have. And when you finally start to see yourself,
you can see others. You start to understand all the different kinds of
personalities: the ones who wait until the end to attack, the ones that start
so fast that they can’t even finish, the ones who hide among the others, the
ones who grind down the others, the ones who make themselves unattainable, the
ones who would rather retire than being last, the ones who don’t have any idea
of what they’re doing…
Don’t be shy to be naked. We all need it to know who
we are. WE’RE ALL NAKED ON THE TRACK!
Image: Body Issue ESPN.
Image: Body Issue ESPN.
Wise words indeed!
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