Pain and Fatigue and Why You Want Them
Track is a tough sport. Most people recognize this, but few outside the track and field community understand why.
What’s the toughest part of track and field? Ask a friend with no connection to track and field. Then, ask yourself.
Training is tiring and painful and this is what you’re likely to hear from your friend. Training is frustrating and thankless and this is what you’re likely to hear from yourself. Fatigue and pain rarely disrupt the training top-level track and field athletes. Frustration and disenchantment however, can destroy an athlete from the inside out. We thrive on progression and improvement and anything that trips us up becomes an instant source of frustration. Frustration is tough. But, so is fatigue and so is pain.
Your friend is right; pain and fatigue are tough and track and field is full of pain and fatigue. We know this and we run, jump and throw anyway. The sensations of pain and fatigue are as natural as love and happiness, yet much of our society avoid them at all cost. This aversion to pain is why our country is overweight and why our beloved sport clings to dwindling popularity.
There’s nothing wrong with pain or fatigue, or frustration for that matter. Remind yourself of this everytime you train, and have pity on the rest of our society who is afraid to swallow their medicine because it might taste bad.
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Enough Said....
4:03 PM, November 9, 2007
.. Posted by TR400
Your blog entry sums it all up...enough said.That was truthful, inspirational and most of all necessary.
Good Luck this season.
Thanks Tyrone
2:25 AM, November 10, 2007
.. Posted by hmurphy
I appreciate the comments. Good luck this year.
You nailed it
2:47 AM, December 8, 2007
.. Posted by missbri
This is so true. There are few outside our sport who can fully comprehend and appreciate what it's like to be a track and field athlete and to continually give it your all in the face of so many obstacles and so much adversity. I FEEL YOU!
btw...love your writing.
Thanks Bri
10:32 PM, December 10, 2007
.. Posted by hmurphy
Thank you! It's good to know I'm not alone in my thinking on this. I'm sure you as a post-collegiate athlete know better than anyone.
Take care.
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