If I could keep a good consistent pace I would be ok. As I was running I could hear someone right behind me. Started thinking again "What if she passes, I'm going to let my whole team down" I started to shut down at that point. The team we were racing to be 3rd passed me and at that point I felt defeated. My team drove by and could see I was burning out. One of them jumped out of the car and started running with me. Leslie kept yelling at me to push forward. Its not that I couldn't it was because I had already given up mentally. I pushed forward not happily but I did. I finally made it to transition and I felt horrible. "We weren't going to place because of me." At the last leg one of our stronger runners was going to have to make my time up. As we went towards the finish line we could see her running through the neighborhood and she did it. She passed the team we had been competing with for 3rd. She came through the finish line a little over 4 hours. We were so excited to place. One of our team mates went to the timing desk to get our time and it said that we placed 1st in woman's division. We were all so shocked. The whole time we thought we were competing for 3rd. Love my team!!!
What I ultimately learned from this experience is personal affirmations are powerful. The positive ones and the negative ones. I let my thoughts control my run and ended up having one of the worse runs ever. I don't just think that the personal affirmations in running are important but in our daily lives as we tackle those everyday problems. Think positive even in negative situations and they will turn out positive. It always goes back to that saying "If you say you can't your right"
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