Dan Caron before a race — still testing what holds up, what breaks down, and what actually helps.
Everyone talks about motivation.
Motivation isn’t the problem.
Staying healthy long enough for the work to matter is the real challenge.
Most people don’t stop running because they lose motivation. They stop because something starts hurting, pain lingers a little too long, and then slowly takes the joy out of it. Knees. Hips. Achilles.
It’s almost always the body asking for help.
When your body feels good, consistency becomes possible.
When consistency is possible, progress happens quietly in the background.
That’s true for running.
That’s true for recovery.
And honestly, it’s true for building anything.
You don’t win by swinging harder every day.
You win by staying healthy enough to keep showing up at.
That’s what I’m chasing now — not hype, not intensity, not aesthetics.
Just the ability to keep moving.
