I agree, being on scholarship would have made the running mandatory, but even without it doesn’t mean staying with running wouldn’t be a better idea. We’re just giving advice from our experience. In my case, I stopped wrestling in college as a sophomore when cutting weight got really hard. Honestly I wish I’d been good enough at another sport to play at that level instead, but I wasn’t. I miss the option to compete at that level in anything, and do wish I had another couple years of wrestling nostalgia to remember back on.
Quitting with a scholarship = “What the fuck are you thinking you entitled little prick?”
Quitting without a scholarship = “You might regret this in the future.”
Personally, I regret “quitting” baseball after my sophomore year of high school (to focus on football), and quitting wrestling my senior year after the regular season ended so I could start preparing for my freshman year of college football (I only wrestled to help the team win). At the time I had good reasons for those decisions. Now that I know how the story ends (IE I’m not in the NFL), I wish I had done things differently. It could also be that time has made me forget all of the reasons why I decided to stop competing in those sports in the first place though.
If OP is not on a scholarship, I think it’s safe to say he’s not going to the Olympics and probably isn’t going to win a national championship or even his conference. I think quitting makes sense if his heart isn’t in it anymore, because that’s all he’d really be competing for anyway.
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I can get on board with all that. Your quitting equation at the beginning sums is up nicely