I used to be scared out of my mind whenever lydiaagradyy would challenge me to run. I hated running. I played football for 16 years of my life and never once did I enjoy running. Like who enjoys just running for the sake of it? Only coocoos and weirdos I thought. Just skinny people who wanted to be skinnier I thought. People who weren’t strong enough to push around some iron I thought.
Wrong.
Reading Shoe Dog, and now Can’t Hurt Me has shown me that running is for the strong. Not just the physically strong, but more so the mentally strong. It’s you versus yourself. No plates, no scoreboard, no opponent outside of you It takes a completely different mindset to intentionally put yourself through a form of suffering, and get into a fight against your own mind.
In his book, davidgoggins speaks on finding out “what am I capable of?”. He talks about pushing the mind beyond the physical limitations, talks about what it REALLY takes to tap in to 100% of your existence. I’m not quit...
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