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It’s me again. I thought time would make this all a bit easier. To an extent it has, and so has filling my time with other passions and hobbies. Oh, and compensating for 8 years of social celibacy. Yet, I can’t get on a bike without crying afterwards, or even bring myself to go for…
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I will always love you. I will always cherish the honesty you provided. The brutality of it all is what made it so enriching, exciting, and emotional. You made me feel like a man on a mission: my mission. You provided me an outlet like no other and it is hard to truly say goodbye…
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And I really thought I would. It’s been a rough month. A lot of family health issues, my own health issues, and now COVID has left me not training for the last month – the longest period I have had away from sport since being diagnosed 9 years ago. My previous record before this block…
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“You won’t be able to return to sport in the capacity you are used to. Do you understand? You won’t be able to handle competitive sport with the level of fusion and degradation present.” I was 17 when I heard those words. A somewhat capable athlete sitting in a doctors office after nearly a year…
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What a year it has been. I learned a lot about myself this year. A lot of good things about myself, and a lot of bad things. Unfortunately, the majority were learned during the hardest, toughest, darkest moments of the year. But they often are, aren’t they? That is when we learn what we really…
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The following is not a list of excuses, but rather an explanation for what happened during that race. Ultimately, I ended up on the podium but it was not the race I had planned, my coaches had planned, or what we knew could be delivered. The goal was Sub 4 and a win. The 2…
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The highs and lows of sport, and life, are cruel. The highs are cruel because, I imagine much like someone chasing their next hit, you always want another. The lows are cruel because you are left feeling lost, empty, and as if the training and hours of sacrifice were for nothing (which is often not…
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No-one ever really talks about the loneliness in sport. It is one of those things that is just accepted as ‘being’. “They train a lot they must not have a lot of time for other things” is probably a common one. Yet, I hardly ever hear the actual impact of that reality. It takes its…
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That is what I want to be known for as an athlete. I have realised that yes, I love the challenges of racing and sports. Yet, I will always want to be good at ANYTHING. I want my fitness to cover all bases, all distances, all surfaces. Everything. I want to mingle with the best…
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Coronavirus. Covid-19. Words that have come to take over our minds and our lives over the last few months. Any semblance of normality has been thrown out of the window as life as we know it has turned its back on us. There is no “normal” anymore. It’s lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, and rationing food.…
Max Poplawski 