Factors

I read an article yesterday about education reform, and how it's impossible to easily replicate the success of model schools when looking at low-performing schools, because there are SO many factors that impact school success (ah duh). During my run today, I made a text-to-self connection (old habits die hard?). There are so many factors that impact my/anyone's running: weather, humidity, mood, what I ate, how well I slept, my feelings, my mood, my ATTITUDE, the music that randomly plays, what I'm thinking about. While there are certainly things in my control (I'm beginning to notice an attitude theme going on here..), there are many things that are out of my control, or that at this point, I have yet to learn to control. While certain combinations make for better runs than others, it's not that easy. Some days, my runs will be harder and some days, I'll feel a little less like I'm going to collapse at the end. What I can/NEED to do is keep my head up (literally...I look down at the ground a lot when I'm run, most likely a result of the big fall back in May) and be mindful of that.

Sindy shared a quote with me when I first began training that really stuck with me, and I think captures this whole thing:

"There will be days when I don't know if I can run a half-marathon. There will be a lifetime knowing that I have." - Unknown