You may read my title and seriously ponder how these 3 things come together in some sort of strange cohesion and enter my life. Well I have two words, training camp. Training camp was by far the hardest 10 days of my life. In all honesty I sat in my scorching tent (this is before my tent poles snapped in some freak accident that it still trying to be determined) the first night and pondered how much an uber would cost to take me back to civilization- aka comfort. The thing about training camp is that is suppose to be UNCOMFORTABLE; I dont know anyone who enjoys using port a potties for 10 days straight and using bucket showers to get “clean”.
What I realized about training camp, along with the fact that Febrezze is a perfume no matter how many people try to deny it, is that my life is way too comfortable. I have a routine, I have assurance, and I have no need to worry about tomorrow. This isn’t the case for millions of people around the world. Many people “live” day to day struggling to survive today with no hope or reassurance for tomorrow. So yes I was uncomfortable eating crickets for breakfast and wearing the same outfit for 4 days straight but the problem isn’t other peoples’ culture or lifestyle being uncomfortable, the problem is that my lifestyle is too comfortable.
Yes training camp is rough, smelly, and dirty but it is also so truly beautiful. Theres something that happens when everyone smells and everyone is tired and everyone is broken, hungry, and lost. There becomes beauty in the dirt. My next blog is going to have some advice for future racers, stay tuned.
xoxo
Jazlyn Gonzalez
