Core Daily
The Performance Life
My New Outlook
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Sometimes you find inspiration when you least expect it. After making quite a dramatic change in my life a week and a half ago, I kept looking for a new challenge.
I was considering running track for my college, joining a local men’s soccer team, and even trying out as a pinch runner for our baseball team, all of which seemed like good options.
But nothing gave me that spark of enthusiasm I needed, and it showed in my daily routine: I stopped following my exercise regimen, was falling back into bad eating habits, forgot about my multivitamin, and as a result had no energy and felt sick. I had hit a rough patch.
Then, on a night when I was in the library pumped up on energy drinks past midnight trying to study for an upcoming midterm, my outlook changed at a moment’s notice. Zoning out from the textbook, lost in thoughts, I was staring at a jacket that a friend of mine had given me.
The jacket was from the 2008 Boston Marathon, and it struck me. It had been a lifelong dream of mine to finish a marathon, but due to my soccer involvement I never had the chance to train for it. Now, however, seemed to be the perfect time to go after my lifelong dream.
Now I'm getting my nutrition, my workouts and the rest of my life back on track. All it took was a split second in that library.
With the Core Performance Endurance training program, I feel like I will be well prepared for the challenge. The only question is: Which marathon should I run?
About The Author
Tobias Resch – A student athlete at Swarthmore College, Tobias Resch is an author of "The Performance Life" blog for CorePerformance.com.
