It's a Love Thing...

Well sorry for being tardy with these latest blog posts, and I said I would update you guys as to how I did at my first race in awhile. It went pretty well, ran around a 56:35 in the Cartersville 10k, which I'm actually pretty happy with and with this result I felt confident enough to enter the Atlanta Half Marathon next month, so training has began with that and hopefully that goes well.

So as those of you, whom have kindly read my first three blog posts may know I really enjoy running...okay okay really really enjoy it, but I digress. Honestly I feel like the reason that most people I've talked to that hated running, don't like it for the simple facts: that well they make it seem harder than it is to do.

Running doesn't have to be a 9 mile run nor does it have to be 10 wind sprints. Running is just putting your two feet in front of one another at a slow or fast pace. Either way it honestly doesn't matter how you go about it, it's all the same. People have a myriad of reasons why they do it, some people do it because it's an easy way to stay in shape, others (like myself) do it because it's a nice escape from reality of sorts, etc. (you get the point...well hopefully) However,  the level of commitment also says a lot about how much they actually enjoy running...well no shit Sherlock, but my philosophy is...well for most anything any hobby or activity is that you should have a passion... a love for whatever it is that you're doing otherwise you probably shouldn't be doing it...at least in my opinion.

So hopefully you guys will find that activity that is beneficial to you in some sort of way, whether it benefit you physically or mentally. Painting, cycling, music, etc. having that type of outlet can only help you in my opinion. Until next time...The Whispers will hopefully help drive that point home about loving what you do.

Well anyhow, once again I'd like to apologize for being so late with this post. I'll be sure to try to stay much more active with updates on training as well as more of my total philosophy on running.

Guess Who's Back

So today is my first race in some time...needless to say I'm a little nervous and maybe more so than any other event in the past. After having a hamstring pull and not being able to train like I wanted, I'm afraid I may re-injure myself and not do as well I would hope. However, there are some definite positives to race day.

Race days for me are what it's all about, all the hard work in training all comes down to this. It's kinda like football for me, I hated practice with a passion, but I loved the games. However, I don't hate training, it's just that I love the races so much. Now you may ask why and I'll tell you. There have been times in the past when I was going through some pretty tough times and sometimes you can't run away from certain types of problems. I remember when I ran the Run for the Arts back in 2012 (which I believe was my 3rd race ever at the time), I can't remember what exactly was going on but I was preoccupied mentally before the race but once I started all I did was focus on the task at hand and that's kinda what got me addicted. Those 30 minutes to an hour where you clear your mind and just compete with other people, it's truly a blast. Now don't get me wrong depending on a course, shit can be made to be very difficult if you don't know how to pace yourself and whatnot but either way it's still fun to be around a group of like minded people that enjoy running as much as you do.

So with that said, I'm mentally starting to prepare myself to run this race, which I don't remember the name of at the time but yeah. Hopefully things go well and I'm satisfied with my result. Thanks for reading, talk to you soon.

P.S. I'll let Rakim do the work for me, but...Guess Who's Back

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