Game Face

The man in the moon has never smiled

James Kelly

You know that point in the day when you are starting to suffer? For some of us it's one minute before the gun goes off. For others it may be somewhere on the run. No matter who you are or where you are from. Newbie or average Vet. Some time, some where there will be a point where there will be some suffering.
The face you put on through those periods tells more about you caricature than the finish time you achieve fighting through that point.
This is not the time to vent you pain on the person who you have to rely on for the rest of your day.
I have often witnessed a volunteer taking the brunt of some athlete's misplaced sense of urgency for a miss passed water bottle or the greatest of all evils running our of gels.
I must admit that I have myself expressed displeasure( I use this word because I can honestly say I have never been angry enough to actually yell at a volunteer) to a volunteer for having been sent in the wrong way on a course, but that's the thing. There was a day when there were no volunteers, there were no gels and a lot of the time your guess was as good as mine as to which direction you were supposed to be going.
You got to love the fact that once in a while you go the wrong way and the challenge just became a little bit bigger.
Here is my question. Do you accept this challenge or do you yell at a volunteer?
Get your game face on and smile and thank your volunteer no matter how crappy you feel.