How do you measure success?
How do you measure success? I was thinking this very question as I was running the NYC Marathon last Sunday, trying to figure out why I was running closer to failure and further from success. Or so I thought at the time. I train five times a week: long runs, speed runs, intervals, tempo runs, hill runs, recovery runs. It’s all part of the routine, working towards a certain goal. This goal is measured in minutes and seconds, not in hours. (Yes, it takes hours to run a marathon.) I am not a professional runner, but, like professional runners, I want to measure success in numbers. My golden pace for last Sunday was 5:00 min/KM, which would bring me to the finish line in just over three and a half hours. This is broken further down into 5K laps, with each 5K having its distinct target pace, based on the terrain and the part of the race. The weather was perfect. I studied the course: every bridge and hill, every turn in Brooklyn and the Bronx. My training told me t...
