Have you ever watched the Comrades marathon on TV? Thousands of eager runners line up early in the morning to take on this extreme race either from Pietermaritzburg to Durban or from Durban to Pietermaritzburg. It's a race that tests each runner's endurance, perseverance, resilience, and fitness levels to the extreme.
By midday, the professional athletes have finished the race, but thousands of others are still somewhere on the road. Running a race against time and against their own bodies and minds. Sometimes they literally ran out of steam. They feel like they cannot go on. Some get going again because of the supporters next to the road urging them on, others because of other athletes who stop to give them a helping hand. Hours later you see the same athletes who wanted to give up at the halfway mark completing the race.
Others don't make it. They are forced to give up somewhere along the road because their bodies just cannot handle it, or they didn't make a time cut. Most of these athletes are back the following year to try again. Why? Because it's their dream. To finish the Comrades. For others, it is to break their own record set the previous year or to get that much sought-after Green Number (a permanent number for completing 10 Comrades Marathons).
Fact is what you see on TV is only the culmination of years of hard work and sacrifice, of overcoming challenges and disappointment, of trying, again and again, to finally take on the world's most famous ultramarathon. Yes, sometimes even the champions ran out of steam, have a bad race or struggle with cramps, but ultimately, they never give up.
Learn from the thousands of Comrades Marathon athletes. Keep going. Never give up on your dream. You might not make it the first time, but make sure you get up and start to prepare for the next time.
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