The Angry Typist

I have decided to enter a local CF comp at the end of September. It gives me over two months to train for it. It’s a ‘shot-gun’ style comp with a 4-person team (M/M/F/F). After some recruiting and begging, I managed to assemble a fairly strong team but looking at the others I couldn’t help but to feel like the weakest link.

Granted, I have no delusions of grandeur of being on the podium. However, I still want to do well, and I certainly do not want to be the reason my team is dead last. As the early bird registration deadline looms closer, my angst increased, and my inner critic started to ensnare me within its grips of doubt. I wanted to drop out before I even got started.

I shared my doubts with my Tribe Coach and as always, she smartly challenges me. Her superpower is not only to be an excellent RAH-RAH cheerleader, but she always provides me with what I need most, logic & facts.

Based on Mel Robbins’ podcast “How to Stop Doubting Yourself and Get Anything You Want in Life” my Tribe Coach asked – ‘Why Not You?’ And to that I really had to think about her question – why not me?

• I certainly put in the work – 4-5 days a week of either WODs or strength training following the 5/3/1 Strength training app.
• I have been able to successfully complete some Lvl 2 WODs (which I never thought was within my wheelhouse – EVER)
• I have consistently PR (Something that has not happened in over 2 years)
• My nutrition is on point.
• My sleep is on point.

So, why not me?

She challenged me to view myself as an ‘athlete’ whereas I can only consider myself as a 55-year-old menopausal woman doing what I can to mitigate natural muscle loss. Those are two very different perspectives which I have not fully been able to reconcile.

But after re-reading her feedback, I do have to sincerely ask myself, ‘yea, why not me?’