Control

My knee hurts. I’ve rested it, had it checked out and it looks like one of those aches that there isn’t much I can do about. I’ll need to work with it as it is.

It’s really frustrating when you want to do things and can’t because of injuries and niggles like this that just don’t seem to have an easy solution.

This is when I need to remember I can only control what I can control and what I can’t control I need to work with. I could get really annoyed about it, let it get me down, decide that it’s not worth doing anything if I can’t do things as I wanted or planned. But actually I will only upset and frustrate myself. I need to accept the things I cannot do anything about are what they are. I can plan things to work around it, different training, adjusted goals and accept there are some things that I may not be able to do.

I think I’m still going to aim to do the same events I wanted but with the knowledge it may take me longer and I may have to adjusted my ideal results from them, remembering that this will still be an achievement and pushing myself is great but I can’t change certain circumstances.

Controlling the controllable and accepting what I cannot control is something I really struggle with but am trying to get better at!