What’s more impressive?
Running 5 miles a day every single day of the week for an entire year, or running a 26.2 mile marathon once?
Well, to me it depends on what you’re hoping to accomplish.
Both are incredible feats, but one is a big push on one day while the other is the constant grind each day.
For a marathon, you can get hyped up and the adrenaline can carry you to the finish line despite how unprepared you might be.
While running 5 miles each day will bring with it days that you just don’t want to do it and it takes work to overcome that resistance to complete the run.
I used to focus in on how long I can run every once in a while. I’ve ran 26 miles, a few half marathons, and had a ton of other ‘insane’ workouts that I was able to put together – but they typically brought sickness and a lot of hurt after due to my body not being prepared.
Leading to a lot of time off trying to get back to being healthy and a lot of frustration.
I’ve changed my mindset to consistently running anywhere from 5-8 miles a day for at
I’ve been focusing on consistency and building a habit, rather than intensity every once in a while.
least 5 days a week.
Each day I get a good workout, my body is adapting and getting stronger, and I know at anytime that I could crank out a marathon or half marathon and not end with a major risk of injury.
My intensity when I’m really feeling it can be more than before without wasting all my progress I’ve built rehabbing.
Not really a point here, just maybe a different perspective change and thinking about how it might apply to other areas.
On that note….on my way to get 5 in. Have a day!
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