7 Replies to “Love Your Running Competition and Thrive in Their Presence”
Running is a bit unique in that the people you train with suddenly become competitors when it’s race time – so different to team sports and even individual sports when people compete separately and not in one race (like gymnastics say, or high jump – I know you’re still competing against everyone else but it’s different to lining up and running against them!). I like your ideas for managing that 🙂
yea, running is the best! 😉 yea i think for people who are new to the sport they may feel ‘mean’ or afraid to beat someone because they don’t want to ‘hurt’ a friendship…so i think it’s important to establish that it’s nothing personal in a race…it’s all about doing ur best regardless of who u end up beating. then u can go cool-down with ur buds. 🙂
Running is a bit unique in that the people you train with suddenly become competitors when it’s race time – so different to team sports and even individual sports when people compete separately and not in one race (like gymnastics say, or high jump – I know you’re still competing against everyone else but it’s different to lining up and running against them!). I like your ideas for managing that 🙂
yea, running is the best! 😉 yea i think for people who are new to the sport they may feel ‘mean’ or afraid to beat someone because they don’t want to ‘hurt’ a friendship…so i think it’s important to establish that it’s nothing personal in a race…it’s all about doing ur best regardless of who u end up beating. then u can go cool-down with ur buds. 🙂
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