Attending our national sales conference this week, there are many team members who can be found in the gym, working out or hitting the roads for a run. In fact, it seems that after the last two meetings, there's an unspoken competitiveness we all share to be there working out, even if it means being there at 5:15 in am after flying to the West coast.
While there's no mention of distance completed or pace in our exchanges, there was sort of a turning point for me this week when the head of sales introduces me in the breakout session, not by the topic I was there to present but, "this is Jim, he runs like a gazelle and he's run, how many marathons?"
It almost parallels in experience to the first real road you committed to. Remember when you first told colleagues or family that you going to train to run your "first" 5K or half or even marathon? You hoped by telling them, you wouldn't talk your way out of it and would find the discipline to carry through.
As a result of this introduction, I now feel somewhat of an obligation to exceed my own expectations of what I can accomplish. To push myself further and to continue my discipline in training and recovery.
Strange. Funny how that happens.
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