Thursday, January 10th
8:00 AM - 8 Miles, 56 min
Winchester/Arlington, Minuteman path
Today was a long day. I had a bunch of things to do in the morning, I felt pretty tired on the run, and I worked a very busy/semi-stressful 10 hours at work. I just felt very worn down today, probably for many reasons. I did run easy this morning, and instead of doing a shake out tomorrow morning, I may take advantage of the 36-hour trick, get some sleep, and wait til practice tomorrow night, hopefully feeling a little stronger.
Sometimes our ambitions and dreams can lead us to do too much... maybe even do things we wouldn't normally do. We do these things because those dreams are so important to us and have been for so long. But sometimes, we are blinded by those very dreams and end up making some mistakes along the way. Sometimes we do go too far and don't know how to step back to where we first crossed that line. But where is that line and how do we know what is too much? Some lines are so fine that we don't know we've crossed them until it's too late. In this sport, at this level, we flirt with those lines everyday and need to be cautious not to cross the wrong ones. It can certainly be tough, but I believe we are strong enough to get through those battles, smart enough to admit when we've made a mistake, and I believe we will eventually be rewarded for those strengths ...for not giving up where so many others have. We have to keep that faith in ourselves.
Quote of the day:
"It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?"
- Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness
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