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    Terrie Wurzbacher

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    When You Need It, It Will Be There….

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    How true this is. After 3 months of not walking long distances, I finally got an answer about my foot. Turns out it wasn’t a stress fracture but an unusual location for plantar fasciitis (there are three bands of the plantar fascia and mine is involving the lateral band – now that you’re asleep)…

    I’d rather have a stress fracture because that has a much greater chance of healing. But, alas, that isn’t what happened.

    So, after an injection and a referral to physical therapy I left the orthopedist’s office disappointed and not knowing what I was going to do. “You should stay away from the distances for about 3 weeks” he said – even knowing that I had a race beginning in about 3 1/2 weeks. It’s just a 4 day (actually 100 hours) race but I haven’t been able to do any of the events I’d signed up for yet. So much for my summer race schedule training plan. There hasn’t been any training.

    Despondent I just decided to take today to do odd things I had to get done as I wallowed in my despair.

    Part of my morning routine, however, is to listen to Brian Cain’s Mental Performance Mastery podcast and today was no different. He was talking about elite mindsets and listed 10 of them and upon hearing this one, my attitude changed.

    “STAY PATIENT IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY”

    I shouldn’t have needed his podcast to remind me of this as I talk about adversity all the time. In another post I will tell you about what I’ve done for the past 3 months since I’ve not been posting much on Facebook.

    I immediately countered my inner critic’s whining “I have been patient since November..this isn’t fair”, with “Well, we haven’t been patient long enough it seems so shut up.” and I chuckled.

    There is good to come from this. As Dr. Gilbert always says “Out of this something good will happen” and as you know my mantra is extremely similar “Everything always works out for me.”

    I realized it was time for me to practice what I have been preaching. I don’t need to make a decision today about the February race but I do need to keep the ultimate goal in mind. That also means I might have to choose just one of the two summer events – HOTS or Vol State. Again, though, I need not decide today. I just need to be patient and take it one day and one step at a time.

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    Big versus Little – Which Do You Celebrate?

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    Both, I hope!

    Did you ever notice in sports that the athletes cross themselves and point to the sky when they hit a home run or score a goal or a touchdown?

    You never see that when they’ve hit a single, caught (or thrown) a 5 yard pass, or kicked the ball down the field.

    Why is that? Why don’t we celebrate the little things as well as the big ones?

    What do you do every day that you just take for granted or don’t think is very important in the grand scheme of things?

    I know I will never take another painless step without immense joy and gratitude. It’s made me think about all the other things that make up my day and how amazing they all are, especially when taken as a whole.

    I’m writing this on a laptop. As I think back to the disaster manual I once created and typed on a typewriter, I thank the Universe for the blessing of technology. I cringe at the pain I felt hammering out each word (and correcting each error) on that old thing. How often have I just picked up my laptop and not even thought about it. But I never hesitate to complain when some program doesn’t work the way I think it should. I’m definitely going to change my focus about that.

    To help you get a glimpse of some of these things, remember a time when the power went out and you were either at home or in a store. How many things don’t work? What can’t you do that you wanted to do – such as checking out of the store – no one knows how to do that when the computer is down anymore.

    Make a habit of taking time to celebrate the little things as well as the big things!

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    What Are Your 2023 Words?

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    Mine are “Patience” and “Memory”.

    Last year it was “Growth” and amazingly enough, it was a year of great growth.

    This last 8 weeks trying to let my stress fracture heal has required a lot of patience and it’s not over yet. So, today I thought that this must be the lesson I am to learn for the coming year.

    As for the second word, memory, I was writing a phrase “given my memory” when I realized that this will be a year for my memory. it will improve and there will be many wonderful memories. It’s great when you can apply one word to multiple meanings!

    Make your words focal points in your activities. Periodically reflect on them (use my reflection journal to help with that).

    Share your words (or maybe just one) with us if you feel like it…It will be fun to see what each person feels is so important they can put it in a single word.

    Happy New Year!