Thanks for Making Me a Fighter
I have viewed myself as a competitor on any platform I can remember being a part of. The funny thing is that I have been running for so long and I am only just now being exposed to another aspect of training that I have only been forced to deal with in the past once competition rolls around. I’m talking about the art of protecting your space.
Distance running gets nasty, and being one of two girls in about of a dozen runners, I’m finding how to tolerate receiving elbows and throwing them, and creating my own bubble in a traveling vacuum. Considering I have made it this far training on my own for all these years, this new task during my workouts has added some colour and another thing I have to add to the list while running laps. If you have never heard anyone say that distance runners have mastered a certain fluid intelligence, I am saying it now. To execute effectively, we run with more than our feet.
These aren't women, these are athletes
