Ellyse Perry

And she was like to me, you know, like, tomorrow, everyone who's at that athletics carnival today, which probably would have been like five people and a dog, but everyone at that athletics carnival is going to wake up tomorrow and they're not going to think,

once about what happened the day before and certainly not gonna like be like, Oh, I wonder how Elise went, like, where did she come in that race?

Like, it's just not life.

Um,

And she's like, but I really think that if you don't go and try and you don't put yourself on that start line, you'll remember the feeling of that for a long time.

And I think that's kind of framed things for me a lot, like ever since then, like the fact that I remember that conversation because it just feels like, yeah, the point of it is not to go up and win or, I don't know, like beat your chest or whatever.

fulfill some kind of outcome based scenario.

It's, it's about going up there and, and feeling what's possible and what it's like to be a human and have these like, I guess, insecurities or frailties, but still go and do it anyway.

Um, and then what comes with that is entirely internal, like in terms of like a sense of fulfillment.

Um, it's something that builds you as a person, but it doesn't make you any better than anyone else.

It just helps you navigate the world better, I guess.

Yeah, I hope so.

I mean, and that's not to say that like...

I don't, like, have moments where I'm unbelievably nervous or scared of failing or just want to win so bad because I bloody hate England.

Yeah.

Or something like that.

Oh, dear.

Yeah, but I think it's that, like,

like accepting that you're going to have those thoughts and that's fine.

I mean, that's like to say that you don't would probably be completely dishonest.