Come with me, if you will, on an imaginary trail run. It’s a Saturday, you have the whole day off, and you’re planning to push yourself a little with a 15k loop you’ve been eyeing up. You lace up your trail running shoes and start trotting, using the first few minutes just to find your rhythm. Your legs are fresh, but as you reach the end of the second kilometer, your breathing is labored and you start to think about the 13k still to go. Why did you decide to do this? Surely it can’t be good for you.
After 45 long minutes, your GPS watch buzzes to tell you that you’ve reached the halfway point. From this moment on, you have less distance to run than you’ve already covered. It starts to seem possible. Is it just your imagination, or did the views just get more beautiful? Suddenly, you feel like you’ve finally found that rhythm that was eluding you. Difficulty transforms into an interesting challenge and you could almost say you’re enjoying yourself.
