A Look Back
For a long time, I've been trying to archive "winning" and "beating others" from my vocabulary. The main impetus being I didn't like myself when I was hyper-competitive. I didn't like how I might treat my loved ones in a situation where I was under stress, especially when my performance goals weren't that important in the grand scheme of things. I didn't like how I treated myself by overtraining (leading to injury) or eating like crap because I was so anxious about performing. After all, I wasn't planning on going pro . Looking back, I often had a sense of overreaching... in the scheme of self-comparison, I was stretching myself without due process and teetering on the edge of self-destruction. I would forget about what was most important in the moment - having fun and having it with others. And so, since my knee surgery in 2014, knowing that I had to be more mindful about my body and injury prevention, I began a quest for something
