Quote of the Week: Appreciating Discomfort

Though this was originally written for runners, I think it applies to every athlete.

If you do not put yourself into positions where you are under pressure and require of yourself to choose to deal with whatever arises, you will never have the opportunity to know your own greatness.


You can only grow through continually dealing with discomfort. Anything else is nothing more than stagnation.


Whether you "win" or "lose" any battle with the challenges you place before yourself through your running is irrelevant. What is of life-affirming importance is that you never cease from taking on these challenges; always higher, greater, further -- onward and upward.


--from Magical Running by Bobby McGee

Make it a good week!

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