Safeguard #YouVsYourself Timeline Challenge.

I'm not an elite athlete like JC Intal, Matteo Guidicelli, Rio DelaCruz and Gretchen Ho. But if you've seriously trained for any sport, you can identify with the challenges they face. It's true. Sports, at the core, really is a #YouVsYourself deal. 

 

  

It's waking up early even if you don't want to. It's following a training plan even if you prefer to do something else. It's having the desire to succeed even if it's so much easier to not even try. 

My #YouVsYourself story? Trained for a 42KM marathon. I followed the program: speed work during weekdays, long distance runs during weekends. Cross-trained with swimming in-between.

Forced myself to sleep early. Forced myself even more to wake up early. To finish speed work runs as planned. To finish long distance runs like I was supposed to. Giving up was always an option. But you convince yourself that it wasn't.

It was always Me vs Me. That's why athletes train. That's why we love sports. My goal was to be prepared for race day. My thinking: even if you're not an elite athlete, you take on the challenge like one. The result: I finished the 42KM marathon with a personal-best time. Now I'm excited to train for my next 42K.

 

What's your #YouVsYourself story?

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The #YouVsYourself Timeline Promo Challenge has been extended until the end of March 2013.

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