Some of the hardest races I ever ran weren’t the ones where I was chasing someone down. They were the ones I was expected to win. Because when people think you’ve got it in the bag, the pressure doesn’t come from the competition, it comes from you. From knowing what you’re capable of… and wondering if you’ll actually rise to it. It’s one thing to fall short against someone else. It’s another thing to fall short against your own potential. And that’s a different kind of weight. The kind that doesn’t yell...it whispers. “Are you really giving it everything?” It’s tempting to coast. To stay just under the threshold where it’s uncomfortable. Because no one notices when you hold a little back. But you notice. And that quiet gap between what you could do and what you actually choose to do? That’s the part that lingers. So what would it look like to run today like it counts? To lead like it’s not guaranteed? That’s where the real shift happens. Not in proving something to the world,...