As I was preparing my running bag to bring to school for tomorrow, I prepared accordingly. I started to think about the athletes that I coached and some of the struggles I would have with keeping these athlete motivated to do what they need to do when the weather was clearly going to be the reason athletes were going to make excuses about what they were capable of doing.
If you are looking to choose a day to start running, re-start your running, or to get yourself extra fired up about the running that your are doing then I would suggest using a day like tomorrow to give you that extra boost. Here is why:
We so often search for excuses as to why we can't do something "It's raining" is one of the simple ones and there are a multitude of other excuses of why we can't do something. Once we open the door to excuses they tend to creep into our lives much faster than we would expect. So I say that we shut the door on excuses and we find reasons to do the things that are important to us.
I ran today for 35 minutes with my XC team. It was great to check in with a lot of my athletes and see how they were feeling a week before our league championship.
I ran another 35 minutes this evening with a friend. It was a great chance to catch up with a friend while doing something we both enjoyed.
Tomorrow is going to rain. I'm going to run in the rain and make a big splash through a puddle like I used to do when I was a kid because that is super fun.
Excuses are everywhere, but so are Reasons!
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