The 365 Commitment

Day 326 – The Decision

You cannot tell from this image, but let me paint the story. It is 4am. I am up, lacing up the shoes and now I am running vacant streets of Cupertino. After several miles, I am right at the City of San Jose city limits and come across a nice park with artificial turf. I walk out onto the middle of a soccer field and lay down a pile of 16 leaves. You see, I need to do 16 sets of 17 pushups + 4 extra today. I use the leaves I picked up off the ground to count. Luckily it is a nice fall day with a bunch of dead leaves laying around.

I finish my 276 pushups, situps, and squats and then just as I am finishing – it starts pouring down rain. I run into a public restroom – the City of San Jose keeps them somewhat decent. After all the homeless need a place to get cleaned up. Do not worry, there is not a homeless person in sight. They will not start milling around until at least 10am.

As I stand there dripping water down my face, with the rain pouring in from the doorway I am faced with a decision. Run the 4 miles back to the hotel, or call an Uber? Time to make a decision. Running back in  the rain is going to suck. The streets and sidewalks are flowing with water. It is slightly cold, and I am already wet.

What decision do you think I made?

Yup, you guessed it. Embrace the Suck. I pushed out into the pouring rain and ran back to the hotel. Yes, I was that guy. The crazy dude running at 4am in the pouring rain. You know what, I am perfectly ok with the label. Crazy felt pretty good this morning when I got back to the hotel.

Now as I start my day – there is nothing that my job can throw at me that can overcome the feeling of success that I had as I walked into my hotel room soaking wet.

I made the right decision.

Guy Reams (326)
365 Member
Ride at Dawn

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