One of the things I enjoy most is doing what I can to inspire and motivate people to be healthy and fit. It is an amazing sense of gratification when I am able to play even a small part in helping someone get more out of life. Something that needs to be said, however, is that people who enjoy motivating and inspiring others sometimes need to be motivated or inspired as well. It is very difficult to be super-motivated 100% of the time and this past weekend was a good example of that.
This dip in motivation was due to a variety of things: constant training over the past few years, long weekends that led to low energy levels throughout the weeks, and a general lack of sufficient sleep were just a few factors that weighed heavy on my "motivato-meter". These things are fairly common in ultra-distance event training, however, and it's how we react to these challenges that determine our readiness for these events. This past weekend inspired some thoughts that I'd like to share about these challenges and how they might apply to life, in general. (Disclaimer: you don't have to be an ultra-distance athlete to get something out of this, so read on.)
