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From: Paul Ard
Date: 12/24/2002
Time: 6:25:01 PM
Remote Name: 62.254.0.7
This is a note that is personally thanking Wayne and Peter for their support. I feel the flak directed at me was totally unfounded and showed a lack of respect for a fellow athlete. Whereas I have never suggested that athletes have not been committed totally to training or that training methods were incorrect, the attacks against me have been totally personal to me and not in the true spirit of the discussion part of the website. Whilst it is true that many of the club members don't see me as a 'true' runner anymore, I would love anyone who has a personal problem against me to speak to me personally about it so that it can be discussed personally and not across the void of cyberspace.The least you can do is have the guts to comment/insult me to my face! I comment Mr Turlington on anything he has to say because he will then back this up and discuss/argue his points to my face (with which I will do later on tonight!!). Just a note to Wayne on the point of a lack of coomunication between fit and injured athletes-communication is not only up to the athlete.Just like a marriage, just because you don't hear any complaints it doesn't mean that everything is ok.Effort needs to be made on BOTH sides for it to work. I have just one last point to clear up-my leaving the club(I prefer to look at it as I sustained break)was partly influenced by a possible clash of characters, but more so by problems in my personal life that had put me under so much stress that one area needed to be relieved-it just so happened that on that day it was my running. This consequently meant that I was left trying to decide what I wanted to do and on the verve of depression hence the frequency with which some athletes saw me frequenting bars and clubs. It has taken me almost a year to get things in perspective and feeling motivated enough to have the feeling that I just want to get out in the mud,water,hills,sweat and ultimate freedom of running.My final comment on this is that running is never the be all and end all of your life-you run because you enjoy it, not because you think you are good at it.
This is the last I am commenting on this because I don't think it is right that people in the club have discussed this, almost definitely slagged me off, and then will almost certainly be nice to my face-If you have a problem with me then tell me, at least be man enough to do that.
Paul Ard