Confidence and Competence
posted in Shaping Up |I was talking to Pat yesterday and we were talking about the C25K program (which he’s finished and is working on the B210K). I told him that sometimes at the end of a week’s set of workouts, it was difficult to decide whether to move on to the next week or do the week over and get more confident at it. He replied that he had been reading (the trainer for Steve PreFontaine) and that coach had said something about working at your competence, not necessarily at your confidence.
That’s true for running, for your career, pretty much for anything that you’re levelling up at. It was inspiring as I burned through today’s run, the last run for week 4, and I ran harder during it than I probably should have. Finished it, though. I can tell that I was running harder than usual because when the podcast lady (Laura) came on and said “if you’re exhausted, just slow down a bit and but keep running” – I actually could slow down. When I was running before I was reading John Bingham, “the penguin” who allegedly had a slower running speed than his walking speed, so usually “slow down a little” doesn’t mean anything.
Here’s another quote for you: http://quittingadderall.com/running-with-bruce-lee-quote/
