Running Your Best
Most runners are capable of far better performances than they suspect. The genes you inherited may determine your ultimate limits, but how you apply yourself determines how close you get to those limits.
In running, it’s not the most talented athlete who wins, but the best prepared. That’s what makes running so pure and inspiring. Those with less talent can beat superior talents. If you persevere, you will win over the talented who aren’t as tenacious.
Whether you ever win a race is not important. What matters is striving for your best at your level. Life one day ends for all of us no matter rank, success, or fame. Getting the most out of your days, and yourself, is the reward of a life well lived. And for some of us, that means testing our limits with running.
Everyone wants instant success, but sometimes profound persistence is required to achieve one’s personal best. Consistency is the glue that bonds your workouts together. When you commit wholeheartedly to a program of balanced training and stick with it over the course of days, weeks, and months on end, your luck on race day improves.
Yes, there is such a thing as luck, but luck works only for those who have worked to receive it. Opprtunity knocks all the time. Some don’t hear it because they haven’t prepared themselves to take advantage of it when it does come knocking.