Reminding myself it’s not a race
I’m WAY too competitive. It’s actually a joke with everyone who knows me. My hubby sets things up just to see if I can resist trying to win, then he just sits back and laughs. At school, we have a badminton tournament every year against the kids and I’m the one diving around the court. To demonstrate how completely overboard I go, when I was 7 months pregnant I took on 2 kids by myself and still had to beat them. Last year my prinicpal was down playing when we were there and he actually refused to play with me b/c he heard how seriously I take the tourney. I absolutely REFUSE to let 13-14 year old kids beat me.
So what does this have to do w/my life now? I was at the gym tonight after school, feeling pretty good b/c I had just lifted weights for about 20 minutes and was on the treadclimber. I bumped the speed up to 3.6, which on that machine is a pretty good clip. Then, a girl got on next to me and she was going faster. It took every ounce of willpower not to crank the speed up to where she was at. How stupid is that? So I kept it at that pace and put in my 45 minutes, walking 2.7 miles and burning over 900 calories. That is definitely a good workout.
If I think of it I’ll bring up this tendency of mine the next time I see my therapist. I’d be curious to see what he thinks it means.
Progress toward workout goal: 55/250
I totally get the competitive thing, though it hasn’t worked to my advantage lately in upping any of my workouts. Most of the time it just gets me into trouble.
Anyhow, I just wanted to stop by and thank you for your kind words in a comment to one of my posts (it was a little while back). I have been sidelined and just got the chance to read it. It was really nice to know there is support and I appreciated your advise.
Thanks bunches and bunches.
LOL, I’m competitive too. I run faster if there is someone running in front of me. I can’t help myself. I try to outbike my husband (and sometimes succeed). When we play cribbage it’s practically a death match because we both like WINNING.
Hey, what’s wrong with being competitive? It motivates me! I don’t see a thing wrong with it and YOU ARE DOING FANTASTIC! What a great workout! You were smokin!
By the way, thanks for the encouraging comment! I don’t know why I’m feeling this way. Maybe it’s that competitive edge that’s not letting me accept the way things are.
I have a very good friend who is competitive like you… I’ve known her forever and I have no idea why she’s like that. But I luv her. =D
Wow, great workout!!!
LOL! I can be competitive as well. I had to stop playing volleyball with the church youth b/c they were afraid I’d run them over to get the ball over the net! Great job on the workout. Keep up the good work.
Oh, yahahaha! Me too sister, as a matter of fact I’d compete with you to see who wins the competition contest. We’re on!