![]() On the contrary, I was Co-Captain of the cross country team and ran varsity winter and spring track for 3 years. The choice to quit wasn’t about giving up on something I wasn’t good at or was too hard. I finally quit running for good my senior year of high school. The challenge is to be able to identify for yourself which moment you are in. It helped me understand that there’s a difference between giving up because something is hard and giving up because something no longer serves you. It allowed me to continue to give myself permission throughout my life to change the things that no longer served me. And it was actually a defining moment, but not in the way he imagined. He tried to scare my dad into thinking that leaving this camp early would be a defining moment of my life. That day the owner of the running camp tried to label me as a “quitter”. ![]() And I was lucky that my parents trusted my intuition as well. I listened to my body and my intuition to know being at that camp was not right for me and there was no “pushing through”. So when I called my parents and told them I hadn’t been able to stop crying for two days and didn’t know why, we knew something was wrong. This was not a common occurrence as I was a competitive runner and not one to cry growing up. In this case, I had what I can only describe as a nervous breakdown and called home crying asking to be picked up. ![]() I’m eternally grateful for that moment and for having parents that didn’t stand in my way whenever I went to quit something. My father told the man, “I know my daughter and if she says she needs to leave then I trust her.” “If you take her home you’re encouraging her to be a quitter.” This is what the running camp owner said to my dad when he arrived to pick me up less than 3 days after I had arrived for a two week running camp.
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