Consistency

Run: 14 miles (1:47), Lift

I've found that the key to developing true fitness and confidence in that fitness is consistency. For the last few months I have been telling myself that I need to get back into shape; but in reality, I have been running 50-60 miles per week fairly consistently. During the last month of school, however, I began to slack. I would take weekends off due to unhealthy amounts of "extra-curricular" college activities (I'm sure you can imagine what I'm talking about). Still, I was running an average of 8-10 miles per day during the week when I was actually staying on top of my fitness. This amount of training even lead me to my best 5 mile tempo workout ever, which actually shocked me. Still, as I would look at the weeks I was logging, I was still disappointed with myself. I was not being consistent with my training, thus leading to a feeling of inadequacy. So I would tell myself I needed to get back into shape.

Well, the bottom line is that I am in decent shape. The other bottom line is that's not good enough. In order to be the best that I can possibly be, I have to be consistent and do every little thing that is necessary to become the best. I can't skip out on weekend runs, or tell myself that I will get my lift in tomorrow. If I do that, I will never reach my potential (which really isn't that much, unfortunately, making it that much more important). I've done it before, and so far I'm off to a good start again -- I just need to keep it up.