EVEN THE PROFESSIONALS QUIT AT SOME POINT There’s no shame in putting your long-term health as a priority. It’s way harder than sticking around and trying again and again. In fact, if you’re quitting for the sake of your health or to pursue other passions, it’s a brave and difficult decision to make. I also felt shame and weakness in wanting to quit. I was the injured runner that didn’t know when to walk away. I have visions of myself running fast and reaching my goals.
I really don’t mean to sound cynical, because I’m not. It’s the story of collegiate runners that stick around for four to five years of constant injury and agony, never letting go of a dream, only to graduate and not know what to do next. At the same time, w hat we don’t see are the many stories of runners that keep pushing through pain and injury but never made it big. We LOVE the story of the runner that faced endless adversity but managed to pull through and come out a champion. We celebrate the heroes of the sport that refuse to give up, even when faced with horrible illness or devastating set backs. Perhaps because we consider persistence to be honorable and quitting to be shameful. Even in the face of undeniable evidence that their bodies will face osteoporosis in the future if a change isn’t made or that their life outside of running is suffering, they prevail (I say this as one of those people who finally decided to step away temporarily). They don’t want to let themselves/anyone else down, or waste an opportunity they worked so hard to attain.įemale runners dealing with disordered eating and low bone density have an especially hard time quitting. They decide that momma didn’t raise no quitter! They’re gonna stick it out because that’s what they do.
Momma didn t raise no quitter professional#
There are collegiate and professional runners all over the country/world at this very moment who are dealing with their 7-8th stress fracture, contemplating throwing in the towel, then deciding that they are stronger than that.
Why? For the sake of health and for pursuing other meaningful passions. instead because that’s what he’s passionate about now.īoth of these runners did something they never saw themselves doing: quit running. And of my old teammate Ammar Moussa, who could have run post-collegiately, but chose to pursue a career in Washington D.C. I recently shared the stories of my sister, who after 7 stress fractures, has found other passion and is doing a-ok without running. You should quit running for your health (mental or physical), for your career or personal development, or simply quit running because you don’t love it right now. But if you’re constantly struggling to be happy and healthy while running, you need to make a difficult choice to walk away. Maybe it’s for a year, a month, or a decade. Stop taking away from all other aspects of your life to obsess about only one of the many things you’re good at and can have passion for.
Stop pushing your body to do things it doesn’t want to do. A few of you that have lost your passion for running are struggling to stay healthy are stuck in an endless cycle of injuries and stress fractures and those of you that feel that you have nothing else to offer outside of running.
In reality Hopper is desperate to stop the ants from thinking for themselves, keeping them ignorant of the fact that he has subjugated ants through threats of power while the ants actually overpower the grasshoppers through sheer numbers.Īnd should the ants ever realise that the grasshoppers take from them while providing nothing and that revolution is possible, the class system they’ve installed will be finished.That’s my advice to a few of you. The only reason this works is by threatening ants with force and degrading them so they feel weak and worthless, and insisting that the grasshoppers deserve a cut for some vague service they claim to provide to society To spare but still insist on taking the food the ants worked for because they ‘deserve’ it, despite actually contributing nothing of value. The grasshoppers don’t even need any food. The ants work themselves near to death trying to stay afloat Ants are the workforce doing the labour needed to survive, and they have to do it twice over to provide for both themselves and for a group of parasites who do nothing but consume the labour of others
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