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How To Keep Going When You Want To Stop
Several years ago, I trained for the Dublin City Marathon for the first time.
I ran by myself around the small town where I live an hour outside of Dublin. I trained alone in the evenings or sometimes in the mornings after the kids went to school.
My motivation came from within, as I was tired of spending my evenings playing video games or watching old television shows on Netflix.
Later, I joined a nearby athletics club and trained with more accomplished runners. Each Monday and Wednesday evening we practiced running intervals around a 400-meter track.
To an outsider, this looked like a perverse form of hamsters trapped on a wheel, but marathon training demands an ability to focus on forward motion for an extended period, much like starting a business.
I was able to run relatively fast for 30 minutes, then my calves seized up forcing me to move to the side of the track and recover.
The other athletes continued lapping me for another 60 without stopping.
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