Running Microaggressions: Why I Need to See a Therapist
So I was doing a threshold repeat workout where I'd run for 4-5 minutes at effort and then do a walking/jogging recovery in between reps. I happened to be finishing one of my intervals and it just happened to be in front of the school where there were about a dozen high school kids doing something unrelated. Right as I was finishing off a rep and slow to a walk I hear some cheering. "KEEP GOING!" "HUSTLE HUSTLE HUSTLE!" "YOU GOT THIS!" I mean I was maybe about 50 meters from a "no parking" sign. So maybe they thought I was almost to the end of my interval. But then i thought "wait a minute, I'm not going to be bullied into extending my interval for a bunch of kids." Mildly annoying, but I threw up a thumbs up in acknowledgement of their unsolicited encouragement and went on with the rest of my workout. I took this experience to Facebook, expressing that it was mildly and secretly annoying to me when people think that maybe I w...