There is no outrunning yourself.

There is no outrunning yourself.
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Wherever you go, there you are.
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A couple of years ago I would have told you I knew a thing or two about endurance.
Endurance running, to be specific.
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Marathons. Ultrarunning.
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I would have told you that I felt pretty confident about being able to talk about endurance. And plus, running really slow for long periods of time is one of my favorite things to do.
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But in October 2019, I had no idea the amount of endurance I would need to go from then to now. I had no idea how many times a day I’d spend questioning if I did the right thing, if I did more harm than good, if I’d give someone else in my shoes much different advice.
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I didn't have any idea how much endurance it'd take to pivot, share, listen, share again, watch, read... and then realize how naive I was all along to think that things would turn out differently.
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Here's something I do know about endurance: you always have more to give than you think you do. In running and in life. That's why I love running so much: for all of the things that it teaches me about life.
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“Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.”
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It's so true. The Fray wasn’t wrong.
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Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.
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And also,
it's okay to be sad after making the right decision.

It’s okay to realize not everyone would show up when you needed them to, or in the ways you needed them to. It’s okay to not even know what you need.
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Something else that I know about endurance running? There is no outrunning yourself.
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Wherever you go, there you are.
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Forward.