Finding Fresh Meaning When You Know You’ll Never Be As Good As You Once Were

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was pushing myself to my outer limits. 100–120 mile weeks were the norm and I was absolutely pushing the boundaries of what I thought would ever be possible for me as a 29–32 year old woman (I began the journey when my youngest was a baby).I will never be doing that again. But I want to have mind blowing goals in running that I’m working toward. 100k, 100 miles, maybe more this year. I want to place and maybe someday win. But, guess what? My training pales in comparison to what it was when I was chasing Olympic Trials. I will never be who I was again. I will never achieved those outer limits. I wont be running 5 minute mile half mile repeats until I’m crying. I won’t be regularly pushing 100–120 miles a week. I just won’t.Not only is my life busier now, I’m older. And I was wrecked by some things. I’m not as strong in myriad wa

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ys as I once was. Not even close.Today, I pushed the pace and it felt really hard. Then I realized that the pace I was going was 6:15. The pace that I was once training to run a marathon at. The pace that I could go at least 20 miles at at my peak. And I almost threw in the towel, feeling like a total failure and completely deflated.But then I thought, screw that.“If you want to achieve something you’ve never achieved, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”Well, I’ve never tried as hard as I can at something and kept on believing in myself and accepting myself for who I am now and my current abilities and realizing that those are pretty good for me in this current moment. I want to do that. I’ve never done that.So, I’m going to keep doing it.</article></body>

Finding Fresh Meaning When You Know You’ll Never Be As Good As You Once Were

Is it even possible?

“If you want to achieve something you’ve never achieved, you must be willing to do something that you’ve never done.”

But what if you’ve gone to the edge of the world with that thing when you were a younger person and you will never, ever get back to where you were at that time?

There was a time that I was training for a 6:15 min mile marathon. I was pushing myself to my outer limits. 100–120 mile weeks were the norm and I was absolutely pushing the boundaries of what I thought would ever be possible for me as a 29–32 year old woman (I began the journey when my youngest was a baby).

I will never be doing that again. But I want to have mind blowing goals in running that I’m working toward. 100k, 100 miles, maybe more this year. I want to place and maybe someday win. But, guess what? My training pales in comparison to what it was when I was chasing Olympic Trials. I will never be who I was again. I will never achieved those outer limits. I wont be running 5 minute mile half mile repeats until I’m crying. I won’t be regularly pushing 100–120 miles a week. I just won’t.

Not only is my life busier now, I’m older. And I was wrecked by some things. I’m not as strong in myriad ways as I once was. Not even close.

Today, I pushed the pace and it felt really hard. Then I realized that the pace I was going was 6:15. The pace that I was once training to run a marathon at. The pace that I could go at least 20 miles at at my peak. And I almost threw in the towel, feeling like a total failure and completely deflated.

But then I thought, screw that.

“If you want to achieve something you’ve never achieved, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”

Well, I’ve never tried as hard as I can at something and kept on believing in myself and accepting myself for who I am now and my current abilities and realizing that those are pretty good for me in this current moment. I want to do that. I’ve never done that.

So, I’m going to keep doing it.