Lifestyle

Tuesday, May 27

Over the last few years I’ve become borderline obsessed with ultramarathons. It’s an incredible picture of what the mind and body are truly capable of. There is so much more in us than we realize.

Over the weekend, an ultramarathon took place in Austin, TX. It has been going since around noon on Saturday. The setup is you must run the 4.2 mile loop course in under an hour. They start again every hour. If you don’t make it in the time limit, you’re out. Many quit because they physically (or mentally) cannot go any longer. I was so inspired following along that even though I had a hard workout in the morning, I decided to run a 5k in the afternoon.

An entrepreneur I follow made it around 100 miles before dropping out. ​As I write this, there are only two runners left and they have gone 54 laps and 226.8 miles. They’ve been the only two left on the course for 24 hours. They’ve been going now for more than 48 hours. The entrepreneur asked one of the last two, at some point early on during the event, what his mindset is when starting an event like this. “This is my life now,” was his response.

I love it. This moment is all he has. He is an ultramarathoner. He runs, then rests, then runs, then rests, then runs. It is who he is.

It is this mindset that we must embrace in this journey of becoming our best. Greatness is not a moment. Success is not a moment. Progress is not a moment. They are a mindset. They are a lifestyle.

Getting better isn’t what you do every now and then, it’s what you do daily. It is who you are. Not sometimes. Not every now and then. Always. Embrace it.
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Keep chopping wood. 🪵🪓

-Kevin