"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
- Tribal Saying


I came across this quote a long time ago, but I forgot all about it until now. If you're having trouble waking up in the morning for practice because you're drained or just feeling too damn lazy, (who doesn't from time to time lol) always remember that you will get left behind little by little each day and you won't survive the season. If you decide to skip a practice or slack off, it's going to become really easy to make it a routine and soon enough you'll just find yourself in a rut. Injuries are an exception because you never want to make them worse, but if you're honestly not trying hard enough and half assin everything, you'll never get better. Become the best you can and when the sun comes up, hit the ground running.


I'm not writing any of this to try and put people in "their place". I'm writing this because I didn't run like i was supposed to in the summer. It started off great but little by little I talked myself out of things and like i said, it became a routine of slacking off, and ever since then it's been hard for me to get where I need to be. So don't do what I did. Train to the best of your ability; no matter who you are on the team. Because by the end of the day, if you do what you need to, your slow pace will become faster.