Cultivating your inner drive now will pay dividends later.
I like hitting the track or completing a long run. I like to feel my body getting stronger, being strong, then proving it to myself, scrapping it and starting again. It’s a mostly fun process and it’s never done being optimized. I like the mini victory of doing the workout I planned to do in a day. The rhythm of a week with workouts, easy days, and long runs is my normal. I don’t feel centered without those minutes of mental and physical focus.
At the professional level, there’s the added confusion of fulfilling contract requirements when the events no longer exist. While we can talk about having good faith that the circumstances will be understood, we also know that the language of the agreements have the final say—and we want to races to run! We can create them; they won’t be the same, and it’s a crash course in race directing, but at least it’s something.
There are a lot of motivations swirling around right now: fear, scarcity, anxiety, hope, money, standards. It can be disorienting. But that’s another benefit to tuning into your intrinsic drive. It’s also like your personal true north. I trust running in that direction.Molly Huddle is a two-time Olympian who holds the American record at 10,000 meters and the half marathon.
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