When I first started my grad school/running life, I had someone say to me "Frayed, I think you forget that you are not a runner who happens to be a grad student. You are a grad student who happens to be a runner." When this was first said to me, I became upset. I started to question my priorities based on someone else's view of them. Now, I am much older and wiser, and personally don't give a rat's behind as to what someone thinks about my priorities.
The other day work ran late. I really wanted to get out of work quickly because I had the rest of my day all scheduled out. When a coworker saw that I was flustered, they asked "What's the rush? Do you have an appointment after work?" I replied "yes. I have to go work out." Again, playing devil's advocate this person mentioned that it's statements and actions like these that cause people to think my priorities are not in order. I sprung my sassy self into action and said "Listen, my priorities are most certainly in order. I don't care what someone else thinks about MY priorities. I'm doing a pretty darn good job of juggling things and my priorities are MY priorities. My priorities extend beyond work, and I don't care what people think about that."
During my run after work, I got to thinking. How is my training any different than say, children? Obviously there is a difference, but technically having children is a choice, just like training (parents, please don't send me hate mail). If you have children, you make them a priority. Would I get slack if I was rushing to go pick up my kids from daycare? Absolutely not! Everyone would agree that picking up your kids should be a priority. But why then do we get slack for prioritizing training? From now on I'm just going to say I need to leave to pick up the kids from daycare.
What are your thoughts on this?
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