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191: The Discomfort Zone. 50 Miles with Clay Speakman
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:32:26
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Synopsis
Inspiring yourself and inspiring others are two challenging things to do. Inspiration, different then motivation lasts longer. Motivation is like taking a shower, you need to do it daily for it to work! Inspiration makes you search for greatness and doesn't let you quit. So this past Monday, I saw a post from a friend on Facebook saying that he was 90 doing a 50-mile run, an ultramarathon. After seeing that, I told him sure I think I'll run with you. After all the motto of his company Elevate OCR is "embrace the suck". Five days later, at 7:30 in the morning, we met at the beginning of what our course would be for the day. We had a two and a half mile loop that we would run in one direction, come back to the same spot then turn around and run it in the other direction to equal 5 miles. The goal is to do 10, 5-mile loops in 12 hours or less to equal 50 miles. In shape but untrained for this distance, I had to hone my innate superpower of embracing the suck and being insanely headstrong. To make this more