- Topics: [[Persistence]] --- [[Running sucks.]] I've never been a runner, really. I'm not a runner now. ~~I'll never be~~ I'll be a runner someday. 5.0 KM in the mornings - at least. Time doesn't matter. Distance does. For some, 5.0 KM isn't a lot. For some, it's a lot. I'm in a latter. 5.0 KM wasn't a lot for me once a upon a time ago. When I was running - before I quit running. I have a notebook where I logged hundreds of kilometres into. But that was then. There's also been hundreds of days between then and now where I've logged zero. The purpose of these runs is for me to get the [[FUD|fear, uncertainty, and doubt]] out of my system. To prove to myself that I can endure and do the difficult and important things. To prepare myself to do and endure the difficult work that I know lies ahead. At work, there is a running Slack channel. I participate in that channel aspirationally. I admire the mileage my co-workers put in. I'll start tomorrow, I tell myself. Well, [[Yesterday you said tomorrow]]. And tomorrow is today. [[Running sucks.]] And that's why I do it. ## See also - [[Discipline is doing something you hate like you love it]] - [[Feel the fear and do it anyway!]]