Why small victories can be considered gold medal worthy

airport
Knoxville, TN airport employee entrance
Great Smokey mountains
Great Smokey mountains
airport Hilton
airport Hilton from afar

At 6:05pm last evening, hungry and exhausted from teaching all day, I mustered the energy and fortitude to walk out the airport Hilton and begin a run with limited highway access. If I would have skipped last night, it would have been three days without a run, making a fourth day (today) without a run more likely.

I couldn’t allow that to happen.

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Is your easiest excuse for not exercising better than mine?

Maryville
Sun sinking low in Maryville, TN, near Knoxville

The easiest excuse I know of for not exercising is “I travel for a living. Travel is too hectic and time consuming to fit in exercise“. Beat that?!

Delta Airlines. Orlando to Atlanta. Atlanta to Knoxville. After the sound check in Maryville (TN), the sun nearly down…..dinner or a run? When you’re tired, hungry and anxious to get a good night’s rest, dinner is the obvious choice. And so it goes.

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