The quitting we do when we cave in on ourselves is the most destructive. That voice of dissent in training is the same voice that leads to desperation in races.
The overwhelming urge to quit in a race doesn’t come from the challenge; it comes from the quiet quitting you do on yourself in training.
It’s a hatchet job you do on yourself in the shadows, and it’s a toxicity that poisons your races almost unconsciously.
And you wonder why the f**k it keeps happening.
It’s the subtle undercurrent that you barely notice in training: “I don’t feel like this today,” the quiet comparison to someone else perhaps, the doubt, the lack of faith, the fear, the shitty story of what happened before....all bubbling away in the background that we call the subconscious.
But the subtle voice you don’t acknowledge will rise when you least need it and bite you in the arse.
So in training, that’s your opportunity to break this destructive cycle. Acknowledge the voice, acknowledge what it says, how it says it, and when it says it.
That acknowledgement is you pulling your shadowy unconscious voice into the consciousness we call awareness.
Then all you do is acknowledge the voice and come back to the ground right in front of you: what’s that feel like? Taste, smell, touch, sensation.... they are all anchors to what is real.
Awareness is not only something you have; it’s what you are.
Come out of the fog. Don’t take your thoughts so seriously, don’t berate yourself, don’t talk down to yourself.... you’re beautiful just as you are.
Come back to your body, come back to your breath, your footfall, to your truth, and don’t quit.
Gilesy 💪❤️❤️
