Lucky Run?

Training isn't like running at the gym. Training is about tearing you down, making you push through and challenging every fiber in your body. Running at the gym is usually the same few miles over and over so that your body is conditioned and you feel great after a run! Feeling great after a training run is more like winning the lottery, you have to be very lucky.

Training runs, short or long, have a purpose, usually that purpose feels like it is to kill you, but it is there to push you to the limits and believe it or not, break through to new levels of distance or speed or both. All of which can leave you sore and crying and ready to quit. In fact, I'm sure the training that goes into a race is built on the phrase "I quit". The amazing thing is that you don't. Some how you fight the urge to quit, you fight the nagging in your head that screams "you can't do this!". Somewhere deep inside you, you fight back, you want to prove that voice wrong.

Some races are meant to be celebrated as victories simply for crossing the finish line, even if you are dead last. Some trainings have been so full of emotional or physical hurdles that they require you to beam with pride simply because you made it to the starting line at all. Some races are to prove that you can do anything you set your mind to. And sometimes you are lucky enough to set a personal record.

So for all of you out there struggling with your training, asking yourself if it is too much, remember that doing something that challenges yourself is never easy. The reward is the feeling of accomplishment that you have won against that voice that said you couldn't do it. Fighting through the training is a victory that will change your life forever. Find a way and make your own luck.

-Cheers from the Vivác Winery Family!
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