The race, the point at which our heart starts pounding, there is a little push to the starting line. You are ready both physically and mentally. The engine is charged, your feet, legs hips are all in sink. The gun sounds and you’re off. You feel the tension building to the point you are all most all stressed out. You have trained days, months and some times years just to go faster, further then you have ever gone before. It’s all about the time, the time it takes you to go from point A to point B and where you place. For many years I have look at racing in the same way but I have changed. A week or so ago I was watching a video on barefoot running. Not that I’m thinking about running or walking barefoot anytime soon. I learn something very important but had lost somewhere in training for that next race. That one thing was to relax. Then it hit me. I had got all caught up in the time and distance that I had lost the one important thing in my training, to relax. For one whole year I recorded the distanced I travel with each run, walk and bike trip, for what? To show the world that I was a better athlete or maybe to impress someone who am I trying to kid. Well for one myself. I forgot why I was out here, to relax. Yes, it was important to set goals but I was out here to get back in shape and to relax. Today I went out’ walked a lot and ran a little, I felt good. I really did not carry about how far I had traveled or how long it took me, it was about being an athlete in my own way. I guess you could say I was in my zone but was I? My zone for today was to relax, to smile, to laugh, to say good afternoon, to be out in the sun which was a little hot today, to live life. I could really feel the ground beneath, ok maybe that was from the holes in my shoes. But I really felt connected, one may say that I was one with the universe, I don’t know about that. I, just felt relaxed. Somewhere on the trail I found it. I have no what it is, all I know is, that I had found it. I think it was that I was stress free on this walk. There was a oneness and an openness, I was there to feel it. Never again will I care about the time and distance, I will only care about the walk, the ride or the run and the only stress I will feel will be me again myself.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 03:05:13 +0000