So why do I run. This is something that I can’t wait to
reread a year from now, but here are my thoughts for all seventeen of you who
read my posts each week.
Love.
Love?
Yes.
There is a point in athletes competitive running career
where we find ourselves looking over what we have accomplished, what we look
forward to accomplishing, and the legacy that we ourselves leave behind for
ourselves and the current roster spots of a team we are very much invested in.
I call these three things part of the why we are out here. But underlying in
all of these is love.
Love is what I feel when I am grinding hard on a long run
with my teammates, and I know that they are out here for the same reasons. Love
is when we as teammates finish hard tempo workouts together, after hard
interval workouts together, after waking up at 6am to get to pool workout at
6:30am in “81 degree” water together, after shredding our bodies in race after
race together, after falling hard at some points during the season and getting
picked up by inspiring performances of a fellow brother, or sister.
Every race, WE put ourselves out there for EACH OTHER.
There is no feeling in the world where you are hurting in a
race and a teammate comes up and you guys start pushing together. Nobody makes
us do this. It is our choice. But between you and I, my family expands after
every season because I gain true brothers who will be there going through pain
with me, because they strive to become champions.
And what are we left with, when it’s all said and done?
Something we will never forget.
And the answer is inside you, I can’t write it here. You
know what it is. Stay unbroken.
Two song lyrics that encompass all of this emotion
Love what you do and do what you love.
We are all blessed,
Michael Duncan
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