2023 Summer Miles #12

 It is now time to switch over to the MURRAY XC BLOG for the season. The link is on the left side of this blog, Let the fun begin!!!

2023 Summer Miles #11

What is holding you back? 

PLEASE COMPLETE your Register my Athlete.

First Race is Saturday August 12, 2023

PREMIER XC INVITE (We HOST)

ONLY those that have their RMA completed will RUN!!!

Cottonwood Complex

4400 S 1300 E, Millcreek, UT 84124 

Be there by 7:15am             

    Race 1 –Boys’ Varsity (6A,5A,4A,3A,2A,1A)                8:15 am

    Race 2 –Girl’s Varsity (6A,5A,4A,3A,2A,1A)                9:00 am

    Race 3 – Section #1 JV Boys (6A,5A,4A,3A,2A,1A)     9:45 am

    Race 4 – Section #2 JV Boys (6A,5A,4A,3A,2A,1A)     10:30 am

    Race 5 – JV Girls (6A,5A,4A,3A,2A,1A)                       11:15 am

   Section #2 JV Boys if needed will race at 10:30am. JV Girls will be at 11:15am.

    If NOT needed JV Girls will race at 10:30am

What holds us back?  We are asking you this question because we ask it of ourselves a lot!  For every one of us, it may be a little different answer...but one thing is for certain, we all have things that are "holding us back" from becoming what we want to become!  I remembered a little story I came across, a long time ago, and it seemed to share how we are feeling, and how much we want to help you!

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at any time, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.
He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” the trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller, we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”
The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.
Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we struggled at it once before?

Struggling and "falling down" are part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life, for that is how we truly TRANSFORM!

Now, that is not to say that we have struggles because we are conditioned or lazy, or bad, or we have horrible luck...what we want to help you understand is that LIFE will throw at us, everything it has...the good with the bad, the ups and the downs, and it is up to US to DECIDE how WE will REACT to those moments.  And truthfully, our "reactions" are usually an automatic response (like the rope situation), due to previous situations we have encountered!  

Maybe, we need to focus a little more on being PROACTIVE since we obviously know that LIFE is going to hand us these amazing moments!  How do we know that they are Amazing?...because the only way to truly understand Happiness is to have felt down...to feel like you're on top of a mountain, we must have felt the struggles of "climbing" to get there!...to understand why we RUN and work so hard for something that seems unexplainable, requires sacrifice, sweat, sometimes tears, soreness, planning ahead, more sweat, more tears, and then over time, we start to see a change! 

 

The "running" doesn't necessarily get easier, but it becomes more relevant, it becomes doable, it becomes worth it, it becomes even fun at times (heaven forbid!), and before you really know it, a TRANSFORMATION has taken place.
BUT IT REQUIRES TIME, EFFORT, AND SACRIFICE, and when you do that, YOU look back and see that what held you back at times, was not LIFE throwing obstacles left and right (that will always happen), what held us back are how WE CHOOSE to see those obstacles! 

How do you look at the "ROPE" (like with the Elephants), that holds you back? Look at your own personal situations and DECIDE that maybe if I tweak my perspective, that the so called "rope” no longer will hold me back, but will allow us to reach higher, to truly CHANGE into who you are meant to be!  Look at where you have come in your running and continue to see where it is you want to be and BREAK AWAY...BREAK that "ROPE”! 

and make it happen!  It may be hard to "break through", but the decision to PURSUE this, may be all that YOU need to see it differently!  It is WORTH IT!   Break the "ROPE!" 

The next question is HOW do I Break Away...Break that "Rope"?   Well...there are lots of ways and each person must balance reality with expectations...BUT ALL THE SOLUTIONS ARE RIGHT THERE...we just need to work at it...and that is what we will do in the upcoming season...HELP YOU KNOW HOW TO BREAK AWAY!  

Here is a video about Billy Mills (last American to win Gold in the 10K at the Olympics).  He has some pretty cool insight on the "HOW"!