Reflection
I’ve learned so much from playing sports, especially when handling setbacks and failures.
I recall having chronic calf muscle problems while training for triathlons a few years back.
It seemed as though I would never be able to reach my goal of completing an Ironman because I would pop a calf muscle whenever I ran more than six or seven miles.
In an Ironman, we run 26.2 miles after a fun dip in the water and a “quick” 112-mile bike ride.
This problem with my calves became so bad that I seriously thought about throwing in the towel on the sport of triathlon altogether.
Then I saw a massage therapist to treat my injured calves and find out how to prevent myself from pulling my calf muscles in the future.
He gave me three pieces of advice I implemented, and here I am several years later, still training and competing in triathlons.
Most setbacks are setups for comebacks; sometimes the setups and comebacks require the help of others.
Romans 5:3-5, “More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
