It’s okay to be slow, feel weak, and finish last, because in the end all that matters is that you did it!
For those who do not CrossFit, the workouts typically have a prescribed weight to use, and you are either busting your butt to finish the workout as quickly as possible or get in as many rounds as you can in a pre determined time. This can create a bit of competition among yourself or among others, while everyone uses a different weight and finishes at a different time.
I for one can’t help but get down on myself some days when I am the last person to finish or using the lightest weight of the group. And then there are some days where I am in the same scenario and I don’t care because I am fighting for every rep or every second of time and feel SO accomplished when I am done.
Today, I was down on myself. I felt slow and I felt weak but I kept going and when I finished my last 200 meter sprint, all I thought, besides the fact that I was fighting for oxygen, was that I completed that workout to the best of my ability and in the end all that really mattered is that I finished. Maybe I could have done better on a different day, but today I gave it what I had. Everyone else did too, to the best of their abilities, with the weight that worked for them.
Some days in life you feel slow, you feel weak and you feel everyone is ahead of you. It may seem others are accomplishing more, it may seem like you don’t fit in, it may feel like your life is not the way it is suppose to be, but remember, like in CrossFit, the reps and times are not the same for everyone. It is not anyone else’s workout but your own. In life, it is not anyone else’s life but your own and as long as you are putting in the effort and doing your best you will come out stronger and be first to yourself.
Love, Adele
