The Start Line Tease
THE START LINE TEASE
WORDS BY OLIVIA MULLIGAN
Here we are: it’s the start line tease
The start line fidgets and the nervous wees
Placebo effects of those compression sleeves
The burning quads and the dodgy knees
Preparing to struggle, to sweat, to wheeze
Total discomfort and total unease
Overheating to one hundred degrees –
You freeze.
What the hell am I doing?
Running with toenails that are blackening and blueing
Bubbling self-doubt and negativity is brewing
Not fit enough, not fast enough thoughts are stewing,
Chewing, chomping through your mind.
Stop.
Enough.
Rewind.
Leave those Thoughts behind.
Let’s start again for the start line tease
The start line fidgets, the excited wees
Wearing your trusty compression sleeves
There’s fire in your quads, there’s life in your knees
Knowing you’ll struggle, struggle through the breeze
Embrace that discomfort, that total unease
Embrace your body trying to please
Embrace the race and the guarantee:
The certainty that you will finish.
Your heart will dance with celebration
You will droop and flood with total elation
Knowing
Knowing you gave it your all.
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