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Welcome to the Wonderful World of a Wash-out

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empb28   Aug 14th 2008, 10:53pm
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Anybody out there happy with their Track and Field career?  Well, I guess everybody is.  But I am special.  I have a rare gift from god that not many people on this planet have.  The wonderful gift of failure.  No, I'm not one of those emo depressed teens who cut themselves with the latest innovation from Leatherman Corp. or dye their hair so dark that it makes a Texaco sign look like a glowstick.  I'm just an average guy who loves the sprint events (Even though they don't love me).  Are you thinking I should try the distance events?  Oh, I could try those except for the miniscule, minute, diminutive, problem that.....I SUCK AT THOSE TOO!!  I run a 39:08 10K, a 17:30 5K and a 4:46 1500.  Oh god I hated the 10K!  Basically, the last 17 laps of the only 10K I ever ran can be summed up in two words: FUCK THIS!  The 5K was pretty unappealing to me too.  I mean, come on, 12 1/2 laps!  Soooooo boring and pointless! Oh yeah, and I die all the time on the first lap in the 1500.  I'm currently focusing on the 100, 200, and 400 meter events because 1) Distance is boring and too much work for too little reward (To me anyway) and 2) I'm good for about 1.5 miles at race pace for distance before I die and go to hell.  I could go into the rant about my 100, 200 and 400 PR's sucking power again but all you out there are probably sick of that.  Well, there you have it.  I'm Track and Field's bitch and proud of it! NOT!  I really feel upset about how things turned out for me.  Here I am working hard every day and all I get in return are embarassingly slow times.  Sometime I feel like I'm making progress, but other times I feel like I'm making a huge hole in the wall when I punch it out of frustration.  I've never done any drugs, I eat pretty healthy, I try hard every day and nothing much has happened yet.  I do belong to the AAC Track and Field club but it's made up of mostly middle schoolers (Who are annoying most of the time because they socialize when they're supposed to be warming up!).  As you've probably figured oput by now, I'm trying to use a sense of humor to help me through all this.  I guess that's all I can do now.  I suck at all the other sports and never really got into any basketball or football teams in my life.  But, I'm still hopeful something will happen.  I have to stay positive and I am glad to have discovered this neat Runnerspace website and it's features.  I LOVE the arcade section (Despite that the game "Superdance" is a horrible two-bit ripoff of DDR!) .  Well, it's been nice introducing myself to this website community and it seems like a good one to be a part of.  I'll write more blogs in the future on how things are going.  Basically, the more cuss words you see, the worse things went for me. :-)

 

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