Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
The title of this post as quoted by William Arthur Ward is one of my favorite quotes of all time. Not only because it tells us that failures are crucial to success, but it all tells us that sometimes things are going to rough, very rough. However, even if the hard times last for 1, 2, or plenty more races that at some point not giving up on your dreams will be the difference in the end. The beauty is that comebacks happen all the time, and the break through race is just around the corner. This is what I am taking from my freshman year of running in college. I had a few ups, but the downs, lets just say I have plenty to share with others. Coming off of my senior year of high school running career which was a huge leap in the right direction towards being a great runner, I thought that it would just continue to progress so quickly and there was no way I wouldn't get better. Well I was wrong. While I was hitting times in workouts that were way quicker than high school, I was way more ...