Ultrarunning: the first step
Ultrarunning is a very particular and tiring discipline: it is a matter of running for very long distances on mountain paths . Tens, hundreds of kilometers with thousands of meters in altitude.
Running for tens of hours, during the day under the sun, during the night in the cold, with any climatic condition, against pain and fatigue.
The question that is most frequently asked is: " How can such a business be carried out? "
Or: " How can you run for over 100 kilometers around Mont Blanc? "
The answer is the same that we could give to many other questions, such as:
" How can you go on in life when everything seems to be against us? "
" How can you resist when we only see darkness around us? "
" How can we get what we want when we can listen to only hostile voices? "
The answer to all these questions is only one: one step at a time, one meter at a time, one kilometer at a time .
The most important step of ultrarunning is not what you do when the long race begins. It is not even the step you do when you think you do it more but you push you further. The most important step of ultrarunning is the one that is accomplished even before going down on the path: decide .
Decide to accept the challenge and look at life from a new point of view: that of those who stop being spectator and start participating actively in their lives putting their running shoes. Decide to take their responsibilities by listening to himself and no longer the others, listening to the voice he says "you do it!" And no more what says "it's not worth it ...". Deciding to savor the true taste of existence, the scent of freedom and the priceless feeling of controlling one's life when the effort of a training repays us with the awareness of being better than before.
All our life is a succession of decisions, at work and in the personal sphere. If you don't make these decisions, someone else will do it for you , and most likely all this will take you to places you don't like.
Decide now to decide , accept the challenge, look beyond. Define your goal and the action plan to get it. Success is guaranteed, because "success" is the past participle of the verb to happen. Decid now and starts things happening. You decide, don't let someone else do it in your place .
Put the running shoes and go down on the track. Take your first and most important step on your trip. Long or short that is not very important, what really matters is that it is your journey. And remember: one step at a time, one meter at a time, one kilometer at a time ... and you will arrive where you have never thought of being able to push you.
