Big weekend for my sister! We ran the Turkey Trot 5k on Saturday morning. We finished right at 35 minutes which is her fastest 5k time. This course was easy and I kept telling her that. The course we normally run has more inclines which if she could run that over and over again, the Turkey Trot would be easy and that was my plan all along. Train her hard for an easy run. It was a good run though. Now we are looking for another 5k. She wants to get new running shoes first and break them in which is a good idea because she has worn her current ones out. That's what I had to do finally.
After the run we golfed. I admit, I was dreading golfing. Me, dread golfing? Ever since I lost my swing it has been so hard for me to get motivated to golf at all. My wife and daughter got me a gift certificate to Siloam City golf course and I haven't really used it because I lost my swing. I felt like Matt Damon on The Legend of Bagger Vance. It's so hard to find your swing again. Any golfer will tell you that. Something that you worked so hard on for so long and it no longer works? I didn't want to invest that much more time in trying to love the game again. But on the flipside, I do love golfing, just going out there and hitting a little white ball around for a couple of hours is very therapeutic. I don't care if I win or lose a round, I just get out there to have fun and try to beat myself because you can never beat the actual game of golf. It truly is a game that you can never beat, only play. So I got out there with a clear mind, completely forgetting my old swing all together and tried a few things out. Just to find that jump off point so I can refine it and make it a new swing for me. Well lo and behold, I found out a few things and my swing started working. There are a few kinks to work out of course but this is definitely a starting point and once I started hitting halfway decent shots again, I got the golfing bug. I remembered why I play golf. I remembered why I ever started playing in the first place. It's for those good shots, out of all the bad ones, the shots that you watch, the ones that go where you want them. It's those shots that keep me coming back, to try to replicate them tirelessly. I'm not ever going to go for a PGA tour card, I'm not going to ever say my game is better than anyone's but I can say that I will get better than my old self. That's the person you compete against in golf. Yourself. Just like life, if you can be better than you were, you are winning.
Well there is some inspiration for some of you in the form of golfing. It's crazy that this sport means that much to me but it does. I've had some very good memories on a golf course and some very good life lessons given to me on golf courses. I've made friends on golf courses and sadly life long opponents. I've cussed up a storm on golf courses and smiled from ear to ear on golf courses. And when she is old enough I will pass on what I have learned to my daughter, more than likely, on a golf course. It's nature, 18 holes, a little white ball, a metal stick, a flag on a green and yourself. Is there anything better?
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