I gruffly responded "It's the goal I set myself."
Her expression indicated that she had taken what I said on board but saw no use from it. The reasons why I pursue my dream in triathlon runs much deeper than that and it had irritated me that I hadn't been able to describe in better fashion these motivations.
I spent a few days pondering it and finally wrote this whilst on the windtrainer.
Running is easier than living. If running is just a part of life, then it simply has to be. So I treat (and believe) running is an analogy for my life.
Every run is a challenge and a challenge with a goal. If I can't get up and go running, put my shoes on and go running, or say "see you in a little while, I'm going running" to my friends, then how can I expect to do that with life's real challenges?
When I run, I have to make sure I meet my goals. If I can't, how am I going to meet the necessary goals in life's challenges?
I will get tired legs, but I'll learn to overcome that. Someone will beat me, but I'll learn to beat them. I will have to run up hills, steep hills... a lot, but I will learn how to run them. As I learn how to do all these things and more, I learn how to overcome challenges and I feel it gets easier to overcome new ones. The more I don't overcome them, the harder I find it to meet new ones.
I run so that when something comes in my life that is like a marathon, a steeple, a flat out sprint or a cross country on Willandra Hill, I am ready to meet the challenge.
Everyone runs, everyone challenges themselves to run, but not everyone succeeds at running.
Everyone lives, everyone meets challenges in life, but not everyone succeeds at life.
I will run and I will succeed.
This is a youtube clip of the Willandra Cross Country course. It doesn't capture the length of the main hill, nor the nasty little kickers at the far end of the course that makes it the hardest Cross course in Australia, but it gives a some indication and it has better production value than the others.
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