Leadership Lessons From Running A Half Marathon At 3AM
Why I Ran A Half Marathon At 3AM
Many months ago, my pastor came up with a crazy idea: Let’s run a half marathon! (For those of you who don’t know, a half marathon is 13.1 miles. That’s a long distance to go by foot.) That sounds crazy enough on its own. The next thing he said was: at 3 AM.
Wait… What? Did I just hear Pastor Ben right? He wants me to run a half marathon early in the morning? Well, he had. And I tentatively agreed.
There was no firm commitment on my part. I think I said: I think I could do that.
Over the next couple of months, we did a couple of preparation runs. We started out at a 6 or 7 miler. Our last run together was 10 miles. That was two weeks before the half marathon.
I was cautious. I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to accomplish the whole distance.
