Today, I saw my daughter Binky run her last race as a high school runner. After 4 years of struggling to improve, she started to break through when we found out it was her low iron levels making it impossible to improve.
Anemia!
Since she has been put on iron supplementation every race she has run has been a PR.
If we had only discovered this earlier, who knows what she would have become.
I think that's one of the things about this life sometimes. It can be filled with what if's. All sorts of what if's in an innumerable amount of different situations.
There's nothing that can be done, and wishing things had been different is a waste of time.
Approaching it with gratitude that we DID find out before the season was gone, and she was able to see the improvement she worked so hard for.
Breaking a 6 minute mile, after being stuck at 6:45 for almost her entire high school career.
We got to see her improve. She got to feel that strength for herself.
There's gratitude and joy and accomplishment in that.
Sometimes hard work doesn't pan out the way you want it to, until it does. Or until it does in a different way that you intended.
The world and life seems to go at it's own pace. The world has it's own plans for you.
Secret plans.
And really, what we have is right now, and the possibility (but not guarantee) of so many more moments. What if's are wasted time.
So proud of Bink and her 3rd leg 2:44 800m effort. She ran strong!