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My Training Mantra ... for Nowby Peter Shankman
They say you gotta have a mantra. You know, something you say when you need encouragement … something that keeps you going when you ask yourself what are you doing it for. The nice thing about mantras is that they can change as you need them to. So for instance, my current mantra, "It's just the beginning of the season, and I was injured, I'll get faster as I train," can change to "I'm faster now that I've been training." At least, I hope it can. Coming back from an injury is one of the hardest things to do. We've all done it — whether it's something as simple as twisting your ankle or waking up wrong and throwing out your back, or something as complex as surgery, there's one simple fact we all have to accept: It's frustrating, but it's true. We've taken time off. We haven't trained. We're going to be, simply put, slower. If we go in expecting that the first workout back will be as easy and as "good" as the last workout before we got injured, we're guaranteeing ourselves two things: 1) We're going to be frustrated when it's not, and 2) We're more than likely going to re-injure ourselves. So we sort of have to accept it. We're going to be slower. The hills are going to be harder. We're going to pant more. We're going to be a bit frustrated that we're not what we were. But … we're back out there. And just like we got fast for the first time, we can do it again. And it will come back. The body will remember, and we'll get stronger. Most important, we'll come back, day after day, until we do. And that's when that mantra really, really comes in handy.
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