Originally Posted by colby
Nice post, Colby!
I've come around to seeing myself as athletic, but not as a runner. That's something I've been thinking about quite a bit lately. I passed up some pretty cute slogan T-shirts at the pre-race expo this weekend because I didn't feel I "deserved" to wear them. (My favorite: "My sport is your sport's punishment.")
But if I'm not a "real runner" after running 13.1 miles faster than 3,000 other women this weekend, when will I be? When I no longer have to drag myself out for a training run, but anticipate them eagerly? (If that's the criterion, it may never happen.) When I can win my age group in a field that large? (Definitely not going to happen.
) What's the impossible standard I'm setting for myself?
What did it take for the rest of you to think of yourselves as real runners ... or do we all struggle with that?
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