Thank you so much for sharing your struggles and insights, I loved reading your take on themes that resonate in so many other areas of life. I've been learning how to fail better over the past year, and your words really spoke to me. Keep up the amazing work!
This spoke so deeply to me. I’ve taken on some big challenges this year, and come up short on completion. Saying that I t has been hard to swallow is a gross understatement. Thank you for the reminder that pushing up against my edge of impossible is exactly the kind of runner I want to remain. Cheers to the next adventure!
Your writing is so beautiful and poetic that any comment I leave feels wholly inadequate! However, I also felt like I had to comment and tell you how much I enjoyed this particular essay, and how much it hit home for me. For a long time after I moved to Colorado, I was afraid to hike / trail run / ski with friends for exactly this reason - I hated being dead last and feeling like I was slowing people down. (Which I always was.) But when I started going on mountain adventures solo, without the judgment of others (whether real or imagined in my narcissistic head), I got better and better - so now I feel a lot more confident in my abilities and ready for anything. I love how you captured this feeling of incompetence so perfectly, and I also love how you've shifted it from a negative to a positive by letting it inspire you to work harder and achieve more than you thought possible.
I love that you kept going through those feelings of incompetence! Obviously, hiking/trail running/skiing has become a huge and beautiful part of your life in Colorado and you have that persistence and determination to keep going through those insecurities to thank for that. I love hearing that.
Thanks so much for this beautiful piece. Felt like you were reaching right into my brain (and my soul) :)! I've been healing my relationship with food and movement and as I return to the outdoors, I've been feeling that sense of defeat you described. Thanks for helping me see this not as a finite failure, but a stepping stone. Can't wait to read about you crushing Mt. Hood someday!
Thanks for sharing that, Katie. I think we have the choice to make pretty much every single failure a stepping stone instead of a finite deadend. It sounds like you are doing some big and hard things, keep going. <3
Thank you so much for sharing your struggles and insights, I loved reading your take on themes that resonate in so many other areas of life. I've been learning how to fail better over the past year, and your words really spoke to me. Keep up the amazing work!
This spoke so deeply to me. I’ve taken on some big challenges this year, and come up short on completion. Saying that I t has been hard to swallow is a gross understatement. Thank you for the reminder that pushing up against my edge of impossible is exactly the kind of runner I want to remain. Cheers to the next adventure!
Your writing is so beautiful and poetic that any comment I leave feels wholly inadequate! However, I also felt like I had to comment and tell you how much I enjoyed this particular essay, and how much it hit home for me. For a long time after I moved to Colorado, I was afraid to hike / trail run / ski with friends for exactly this reason - I hated being dead last and feeling like I was slowing people down. (Which I always was.) But when I started going on mountain adventures solo, without the judgment of others (whether real or imagined in my narcissistic head), I got better and better - so now I feel a lot more confident in my abilities and ready for anything. I love how you captured this feeling of incompetence so perfectly, and I also love how you've shifted it from a negative to a positive by letting it inspire you to work harder and achieve more than you thought possible.
I love that you kept going through those feelings of incompetence! Obviously, hiking/trail running/skiing has become a huge and beautiful part of your life in Colorado and you have that persistence and determination to keep going through those insecurities to thank for that. I love hearing that.
Thanks so much for this beautiful piece. Felt like you were reaching right into my brain (and my soul) :)! I've been healing my relationship with food and movement and as I return to the outdoors, I've been feeling that sense of defeat you described. Thanks for helping me see this not as a finite failure, but a stepping stone. Can't wait to read about you crushing Mt. Hood someday!
Thanks for sharing that, Katie. I think we have the choice to make pretty much every single failure a stepping stone instead of a finite deadend. It sounds like you are doing some big and hard things, keep going. <3