Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The 20 Strictly Running Commandments and whiners

The 20 Strictly Running Commandments

1. Don't be a whiner. Nobody likes a whiner, not even other whiners.

2. Don't make running your life, make it part of your life.

3. When doing group runs, start on time no matter who is missing.

4. Don't compare yourself to other runners.

5. When standing in starting lines, remind yourself how fortunate
you are to be there.

6. The faster you are the less you should talk about your times.

7. Don't always run alone.

8. Don't always run with people.

9. The best runs sometimes come on the days you didn't feel like running.

10. Be modest after a race, especially if you have reason to brag.

11. All runners are equal; some are just faster than others.

12. There are no short cuts to run excellence.

13. There is nothing boring about running, there are, however,
boring people who run.

14. Look at hills as opportunities to pass people.

15. Don't try to out run dogs.

16. With out goals, training has no purpose.

17. Go for broke, but prepare to be broken.

18. Unless you make your living as a runner, don't take running too seriously.

19. Runners who never fail are runners who never tried anything great.

20. Running is simple. Don't make it complicated.


I found this on the internet today, oh how I love the internet! What on earth did we do before it? Encyclopedias? pffft! Mail letters with stamps? What?!!? Go to the Library?!?! And what on EARTH did we do with all our free time?

I must admit I was a whiner last week. I had a couple of rough days. Why? I don't really know. I blame it on my RAGING hormones and quite frankly, a lack of vacation. I really am sorry, mostly to and for my DH who had to put up with me. I digress...

Whiners are people with long faces, who are sad, depressed, irritable, never feel good and always have some reason things aren't going their way and it's ALWAYS someone else's fault. Something is always annoying them, it's always party cloudy and the glass, most definitly, is at least half empty. They are people with a black cloud that follows them around, unhappy with their place in life, and either too lazy or too tired to fix it. They never sleep good, always have bad dreams, and are never on time. They have no energy and are annoyed by those who aren't like them.

They are energy SUCKERS. They pull from others what they do not internally have. They want others to be down with them. They want to pull you down with them. Will you let them? Life is not easy, but it is not meant to be. Life is hard. And if life seems to be going great, easy...it's only a matter of time before something will happen to change things all around.

I am not going to be a whiner. No one likes a whiner.



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