Resilience...

RESILIENCE

the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

This past week I have spent a couple of days at a conference where I listened to Patrick Hollingworth, who is a mountaineer. He spoke about his ten year plan to trek to the highest peak of Everest. I sat there in awe of him and his achievements, and his determination to do such an amazing trek. Patrick spoke of resilience and the moment he almost gave up on his dream and goal to do Everest. At that time he had a medical condition on one of his treks up a smaller mountain. After taking some time out to heal, something in him pushed him on to reach his dream. His resilience to over come a time in his life, with a life threatening condition, just amazed me, and listening to Patrick talk with such passion for what he did and does made me think that we all have that passion in our own lives to bounce back from a situation to continue on, on our life's journey to reach our goals and dreams.

There are moments when for athletes that we have an injury and it seems like our dreams are doomed to go any further, but when you can dig deep within to be able to bounce back and to continue on, even if that puts your time plan back a bit, its just a bump in the path to your destination. At the moment I am feeling a little this way, with my foot still not quite right, it would be great to know it will all be ok in June when I do my first marathon.

As a child I loved Pooh Bear, Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore. Tiger was always my favourite, as I always thought I bounced back well. Even today when difficult situations happen, or set backs happen, I try to look at it in a positive way (usually after the temper tantrum) to see how I can resume my training, or resume the path of my journey. 

I guess we all have the power to be resilient, I guess it comes down to how much we want to reach our goals and dreams, and if we bend enough when there is a slight detour.

As this week comes to an end, I look forward to starting my new training plan to get me to first base on my journey to The Boston Marathon. 

Have a great weekend everyone and may we bounce like Tigger in situations that don't break us. 

Hayley xx