Wow. I’m so amazed by their will power, their speed, their hunger for the top few positions. I feel I’ve let them down, especially T28 2nd runner, racing her way to the lead from the 3rd or 4th position. She wanted that badly, I could see how tired she was when she came back with the baton. She carried on the last 100m with the fastest pace she can manage. I took the lead, ,but not for long. I wasted her efforts, took the 3rd position.
I felt I’ve let her down.
4×400m relay is not an easy task at all. Requires a whole of of anaerobic respiration, pacing and mind power.
Kudos to this 2T28 runner. She deserved to win.
It was never my rationale to just be involved.
It’s about putting in all the effort, which obviously I didn’t. I gave in, let myself down, let everybody down.
Being involved is one thing. Putting in effort to win is another. It’s about the mindset. If you only think about being involve with no medals, I can say I’m very disappointed with you, a representative, a leader. With this mindset of yours, people around you, taking part in competitions, will adopt this mindset to. I can only say you failed as a leader.
We should have just ignored you seriously. We should have gone out there and expect medals to be presented to us. Not just involve, but giving it our best shot even if it means to kill ourselves in this race. Only if we lose, we can say there’s always next year. But this thought should have never come to our mind before the race.
Mindset. A powerful crazy thing that pushed you to your limit.
Never do that again.
Encourage for a medal, not involvment. Because when you aim for a medal, you’re already involved, and you’ve set your mind that you, will be the very very best.
After involvement isn’t improvement. It’s failure. Then improvement.
Failure as in not losing, but losing to your own mind, your own expectations.
I’m so sorry, T28 4×400m girls team. I lost. I gave in to this stupid thought of hers.
I could’ve strived and chase the person in front. I felt I could, but too afraid to do so.
There’s the games carnival coming right up.
No more runner up. No more just involvement.
I’m aiming for the first, the best, the top of the mountain.