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flarunner
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 Posted: 03/12/03 - 11:13 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | | ...And as for Madison, to be perfectly honest, I would rather run the 10K by myself than subject myself to my own mental pressure of being the last of the Riff Raffers to come straggling across the finish line at the half. It would make for a miserable race because I would feel, as I have in the past, like a total loser being the slowest in the group and I'd never be able to enjoy the race worrying about how lame-ass I was gonna look coming in so long after the rest of you... |
I don't think one person in this group would consider you (outloud or to themselves) a lame-ass. And, I think everyone would be there cheering your non-lame-ass ass on!
Maybe volunteer for the RW half so that you're still a part of it, and then do that next-year thing.
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genie
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Posted: 03/12/03 - 12:39 Post subject:
| flarunner wrote: | | genie wrote: | | ...And as for Madison, to be perfectly honest, I would rather run the 10K by myself than subject myself to my own mental pressure of being the last of the Riff Raffers to come straggling across the finish line at the half. It would make for a miserable race because I would feel, as I have in the past, like a total loser being the slowest in the group and I'd never be able to enjoy the race worrying about how lame-ass I was gonna look coming in so long after the rest of you... |
I don't think one person in this group would consider you (outloud or to themselves) a lame-ass. And, I think everyone would be there cheering your non-lame-ass ass on!
Maybe volunteer for the RW half so that you're still a part of it, and then do that next-year thing. |
Oh, I think you're probably right about the cheering part, but it's hard for me anyway, just being that slow. It's really not something anyone who isn't a solid back of the packer can understand, I guess. Call it wounded pride, stubborn ego....
Unfortunately, for this race, volunteering would KILL me, having to watch everyone else finish, no could do. It was hard enough being up there last year to cheer my friends in, I couldn't stop crying.
I have some time, I am still deliberating even though I have felt like crap all week. More vitamins and Gatorade, please.....
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