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Megan Rapinoe missing the final kick of her soccer career. Dylan Bowman relinquishing the Wonderland FKT to another trail runner one week after he set it. Courtney Dauwalter’s bronchial infection and wildfire smoke thwarting her Colorado Trail FKT attempt.
We don’t have to have experience on the world stage to imagine the pain of these moments. Challenging experiences like failure, regret, and disappointment–and the feelings that come with them–are part of the human experience. For runners who are vulnerable enough to chase big goals and push their limits, low points are not anomalies, they’re inevitabilities.
Sometimes our low points are a result of poor choices and sometimes they’re just bad luck, but it’s unrealistic to pretend like they’re never going to happen. A runner’s strength, then, comes not from an ability to avoid low periods, but from…
