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Why?
That’s probably the question I get asked the most. Why do I do what I do? Why do I willingly wake up early and run for hours on end, or bike for hours after work or swim at lunch. Why do I continually seek harder races, faster times? Why do I seek the discomfort found in my athletic endeavors?
It’s a fair question, I think from the outside looking in it probably does look crazy. The answer is a lot of things, but today I have two. First, endurance sports just found me. It’s been a cascade of event after event leading me to here. Since I signed up for my first race, I feel like I’ve been on a runaway train.
That explains a lot of the start but I don’t think it gets into why I continue to do it. Suffering in life is guaranteed. It will happen. But the response to it is variable. And enduring chosen suffering is the best way I know to prepare myself for unchosen suffering. Endure by endurance. The races are similar to life in a way, and help live better, and with more endurance.