I am watching a great series about sport coaches on Netflix these last days during my indoor biking sessions. I am obliged to train indoor after my accident almost 3 weeks ago.
One of the coaches says in an episode that sports gives humanity an opportunity to change. Which is very true, see what happened with Simone Biles for example last weeks, see how the American female socker players made equal pay come on the agenda not only for sports people and coaches but for all women.
Practicing sports is also an opportunity for yourself to change, to set goals you want to reach, boundaries you want to break, meet people from different cultures and with different education.
What happened to me during that training sessions will also change me I have the feeling. After I fell, the first thing I wanted to do is go back on my mountainbike to overcome the fear of the height and difficult underground immediately, but off course the only thing I could do was accepting they brought me to a hospital.
Since 3 weeks this whole “thing” feels like I am getting tested physically and mentally.
Frustration is the good word I would use for the feeling I have. But let’s hope this frustration is the fuel that can lead to the development of something useful in the future. So I will try to turn this frustrated behavior into a new motivational behavior. This failure to reach that objective I had in mind for the 6 weeks that I am stuck with this cast breeds this frustration in me, but I will not accept that this leads me to a behavior pushing me further away from my initial objective.
Because as a nice quote says:” your goal should be out of reach, but never out of sight”
It is not the first time that sports revealed parts of my character. And I may not be there yet but I have the feeling that even with less hours on my bike than foreseen, I am closer than I was yesterday. Because if it doesn’t challenge me it will not change me I suppose.
Challenge accepted!
