If you’re lacking inspiration to run, go to the gym or just get off your bum today, please read this. My best friend and running buddy, Aaron, was in a very serious motorcycle accident a year ago and is very lucky to be alive, let alone walking, let alone running, today.
I wrote about his recovery and what an inspiration he is to me on the one-year anniversary of the accident. It’s long, but here’s a sample:
What you didn’t know was the full extent of the damage you suffered in that moment of another driver’s carelessness: three fractured vertebra in your neck, two fractured vertebra in your lower back, a fractured tibia and fibula, a torn ACL, PCL, MCL and meniscus, a concussion and a lacerated liver.
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It would be so easy for you to sit at home, be inactive and blame it on that terrible accident, but you don’t. You know that life is too short and too precious to give it anything less than your all.
It would be so easy for you to spend your days being angry and resentful, wishing things had been different a year ago. There are some things you just can’t change, but you are always in control of how you live your life each day.
My hope is that you will keep moving forward, pounding the pavement and pedaling to wherever it is you want to go, and all those things you can’t change will fall quietly behind you into the distance.
I’ll remind you that this guy can now kill a 5K in under 22 minutes. How’s that for inspiration?
Click here if you’d like to read his whole story.
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