Runner's Poet

The American President, John F. Kennedy, stated in his "Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort" that "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." These words taught me a lesson that I learn again and again every time I put on my running shoes. Difficult things are worth doing because of the difficulty, not despite the difficulty. Running is said to be 90% mental and 10% physical. I have  learned that running is all about mental fitness and running fast means engaging the mind to help improve the physical limitations of the body. I have experienced first had that running fast means constant mental engagement. This is why we perceive things as hard. Mental toughness is something that spans across all matters of life, and, in a way, defines our personality. Mental fitness is like physical fitness in the sense that you can be stronger in som...