No, not noob. Or boob. Or non. NOB. Nike Or Bust. I came up with this term over summer with a friend and fellow collegiate runner from the University of Washington and it has stuck in my head ever since. It's a declaration. A goal. A mission. It says we are determined to make a run to go professional after college. No, not necessarily for Nike (although that would be awesome!), but at any level of professionalism. It doesn't matter to us if our times aren't fast enough yet, or even if they ever will be. What matters it that every day, every run, every race, in the back of our minds is this goal. It drives us, motivates us, picks us up when we feel weak. Every PR and every good race brings us that much closer to achieving our goal. Only time will tell if we will get there, but you can be damned sure that every day we will fight for it.
NOB.
I remember this run! It was actually one of the warm days this summer at Clark's Creek (Maxx Antush Memorial Trails).
ReplyDeleteI totally forgot that I renamed the trails after you! Haha. But yes, this was one of the best runs from this summer.
ReplyDelete