THREAD: When I was in high school I was a running phenom.
Then I largely failed.
Here are lessons for the driven that I wish I knew when I was obsessively training and neglecting just about everything else:
When you fail a lot, your “why” becomes really strong.
Thanks @lindsaycrouse for sharing my story of how this helped me make 2020 my best year yet.
https://t.co/VlqM4UPNpZ
It also came full circle- I drove overnight to watch you gals run that meet and she and her husband @cejarun drove all day/night to watch us in Atlanta!
Double #TBThursday My sis (who is not on SM) ran XC/track with @aliphinetuliamu @WichitaState and just got to cheer her on to an Olympic Trials Victory in a custom beanie (pre-race photo). I asked her after if she wished I had won or Aliphine... she hesitated way too long 😂
All of this winter weather is making us want to get back to camp even more! Excited for the 4th Annual Prairie Run Cross Country Camp! #PRXC#Summer#CrossCountry#Camp#Running
If Rupp would have been caught and banned when he first started doing bad shit, I would have finished 19th instead of 20th at the 2016 Trials. Let THAT sink in for a minute.
Wes Santee, the American who just missed running the first sub 4 mile, was a coach for the Kansas City Royals baseball academy.
In the 70’s the Royals put thousands of athletes from a variety of sports through a tryout, selecting 42 to be developed. Santee worked on their speed