Setting the pace
Two summers ago, I had enough willpower to run about 30km a week. I had never ran that much in a week before, deliberately. It makes me wonder, what the source of inspiration was, that kept me going to the park, to run six days a week. It probably might have been a comment about my weight, or a montage video about the health benefits of running. Either way, the start was not as significant as the lessons I learnt as I went on the journey. Perhaps the word journey is not fitting, because I was running in circles and seemed to remain in the same place. Each time I set out to run around the circuit, when I thought about completing the six thousand metres, the task seemed herculean. Doubts about it being possible would easily come to mind, as it is not the shortest of distances for one to run. Some advice that would come in handy from a veteran runner and a friend, was to rather focus on the next step and the next one after that. This simplif...