It's all mental
My coach is constantly telling my team that it's all in your mind when it comes to wanting to quit while running. Your mind will bad mouth you. It was make you feel like a piece of shit, to put it simply. But, that's where your mind-self overcomes it all.
I find myself, being one of the slowest on my team, constantly trash talking myself. It'd gotten so bad that I even felt pity for myself.
"Pity the fool."
And I am a fool if I continued to pity myself. Poor me, my knee is a string of profanity. It frustrates me to know end at the fact that no matter how much harder I work, it's always her butt that's in front of me.
But something somehow snapped in my mind-self today. I am so (excuse my language) fucking tired of having her arse taunt me while I struggle to even lift my legs up to keep going. So, I told myself to can the woe as me crap and start acting like I want to be someone. And though her butt was still in front of me, it wasn't as far as it had been before...and I didn't quit like the other times.
"I can do this."
That's what I kept saying even as I felt like falling to the ground.
And that's what any runner needs to say to themselves when they feel overwhelmed with...yourself. your team mates. your coach. that butt in front of your face taunting you on how you can't beat them.(beat that arse!)
Honestly, you can do it. The only one that stops anyone from achieving their goals whether it's running a 5k or going to a prestigious school or standing up to someone is them. Or you, yourself. Or for first person, me, myself.
I will beat this butt.
You will do great things.
And that is final.