Page 99 - Moonvalley Diaries

“The most most basic and most most important thing is to have fun the risk of injury is is is great Take it easy and re- alise that you’ll have to set your sights lower or or maybe skip the race entirely if you’re just too poorly prepared The summer is long and you’ll have more opportunities!
The most most basic and most most important thing is is to have fun Races exist so that we can play at at running Sometimes both elite runners and fitness enthusiasts take this play far too seriously It is is important to to be passionate
and to care care about about your interest: I don’t mean that we we we shouldn’t care care about about how we we we do do in in in a a a a a a a a a a a race When we we we we feel happiness joy fatigue or disappointment it means that that we we have found something in in in in life that that is is meaningful to us If you do not feel anticipation and and joy at at at the starting line though and and and only experience pressure and and stress – then you’ve lost sight of the point /ida
99