My run last night was awesome. I noticed a few interesting things. First, the sky was the same colour it would have been if I had run at 6 am. Second, I was struck by the amount of motivation I felt from what was around me. Whether it was the student linked arm in arm with her mother, the group of cute soccer players, or the man three times my age barreling towards me at twice my speed, motivation can come in any form.
Motivation is just this: it's what gets your blood pumping. It can be internal or external, for a wedding or a race: we all need it and we all find it. The great thing I've noticed is that once we are going, motivation keeps us on track, it becomes our inertia and we just keep moving.
Shalaina told me on Sunday that she would love to run a race in Ottawa. Come race day, she vowed, she would run that race no matter what, even if it took her four days. What she feared was tackling the training. The months of preparation are often times FAR more daunting than, "the big event", but I know from experience two VERY important things:
1. Preparation is a GIFT from the event to you. The time you must take ALONE, committed only to yourself and The Event (your sport, your race, your Big Day), make you a more focused, more generous person with your best, most precious gift: your time.
2. Training = practice. Without it, we fall flat on our faces (or at least are forced to walk the entire length of Eastport Drive as the rain pelts down and the relentless wind rattles the bones). Remember that practice isn't what we do WHEN we are good, it is what we do to MAKE us good.
Personally, I'm taking every single moment as practice for the Big Event: my life. Every day is another Big Event. It's another race, another Big Day and I'm thankful for the day before for getting me even more prepared for it.
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