Like to start off once again, by thanking everyone that reads my blog and I also want to reiterate that I would love to hear any comments or concerns regarding anything I've mentioned here or just ask me any questions. Onto the next post. (P.S. I hit a 1k views, so I thank everyone that reads this from the bottom of my cold heart :)
So as you can tell by the headline of this post, that I'll be touching base on somewhat of a philosophy of mine, and that is pushing myself as far as I'm willing to go. Now it's just me, but I feel that maybe most people that don't share the same philosophy are either A: Don't really give enough of a shit to try it or B:They're too scared to. Now I won't really divulge much further into A, but it's a person's God given right to do as they choose and not everyone is going to enjoy doing the same things, so with that said I'll move onto to group B, the scared group, now I'm not scientist (in fact far from it, although I do have a college degree...) but I like to observe a lot thing around me, be it from personal interaction, social media, etc.; and so it sort of gives me a hypothesis, if you will (or an educated guess for those that don't know the definition...ok I'm done sounding douchey) that I see lots of people that are willing to try something, but aren't willing to push themselves to see how far they can go.
For example, I've seen lots of Facebook friends start running races (and that is fanf****ntastic), different races from a half marathon, to a color run, etc. On one hand someone, whom I assume never ran a race beforehand because I'd never seen any other running type updates on my feed, but obviously this person went for broke and said dammit, I'm going to go all out. Now, not to brag, but I feel like that's the type of enthusiasm or philosophy that I have, maybe a little bit of pride sprinkled in to some extent, but the same nonetheless. Now running a race puts you in a pretty exclusive category in terms of percentage amongst those that haven't, but I feel like millions of people have "run" some type of race at least once in their lifetime (honestly I've done no research, but it's more of an assumption than anything), be it a mile walk, a charity race, etc. Now I'm not sure the exact number, but I think you get the message in that it is a large number amongst active people. Now when you start adding miles to that, the challenge becomes a little more daunting, and some people either step up and face those challenges and some do not.
For whatever reason, I want to push myself as far as I can go without hurting myself. I think that's a bit of a misconception or a foolish philosophy in some people. That pushing yourself to the point of injury or close to death is the norm, it is not. I've heard about people that are addicted to runner's high (I remember seeing a story on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel about that) which is fine and dandy but is dangerous as hell if you're willing to kill yourself to run. Now that's not what I'm referring to when I say pushing the limits. There's a way to push the limits and be smart and safe about it at the same time.
Well I'm starting to realize how long this post is becoming, so I think it'd be a great idea to cut it in half.
To be continued...
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