Cross Country is Here!

And it is OK if you don't set a personal record!

My son, Christian, raced this morning - his goal was to set a PR.  This is always his goal and more often than not, he falls short of it and what follows is self ridicule and blame.  He trains every morning at 6am before school, he eats healthy the night before, and then he works to prepare himself mentally the morning of the race.  

What he doesn't realize is that good things (maybe even PRs) will come if he stays the course and has buy-in to the process.  Outside of Cross Country - all you can do is try and prepare yourself the best way you know how - and he does that.  Try telling this to a teenager though minutes after the race when he can barely breathe, sad, mad, and breathing fireballs!  

Someday he will realize that he is doing it right, putting in the work, and trying.  In the meantime, I smile as I watch him with his head hung in disappointment knowing, he will be just fine.  💙