Quitting Quitting

March 27th, 2008Blog0 comments

Running really teaches you how to quit quitting. When I started early on there would often be times during the run where I’d want to quit for the day. My body wasn’t used to it yet — pain, fatigue set in… And I felt like I’d run enough for today and I should go get some Burger King.

After about a year of running I would still feel like quitting every now and then. Especially when adding more distance. Even after two years it would pop up in my mind randomly: Hey, what if I quit this run right now?

But now, after something like four years of doing this, I never think of quitting. It never enters my mind. Mentally, I’m just doing an activity for an hour and a half. My mind wanders. Random thoughts invade like mutant DNA. I get ideas.

This attitude has pervaded my entire life. I think that’s the best thing about it. I have quit quitting. I know that the idea of quitting anything is there — it’s possible — but it’s never a road I go down. I always just work my way through instead.

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