![]() ![]() There was no fanfare or reward for sticking through except for relishing in the fact I really stuck to it and accomplished something that required time and steady perseverance towards the end goal. With the weight of the pandemic as my companion from the start of the 6 months I couldn’t help but see my running challenge as a metaphor for my business and leadership journey through the crisis. Despite the adversity, one needs to keep moving forward. ![]() I completed my last 5km run last night, closing out (unceremoniously) the end of the challenge. It wasn’t going walk in the park. I am not an experienced runner and certainly not at a level where I could snap off a long 20km run to catch up some distance if I fell behind in my schedule. I knew that this challenge was going to demand a regular cadence of 5km runs almost every day to accrue the necessary distance by the end of each month. Small, incremental, and consistent progress towards the larger goal was the only way to get it done. Either I did it or I didn’t. ![]() The simplicity of the goal was extremely compelling. Every month it was just me and the 100km of distance to be travelled. All that stood between those two things was time and my own gumption to make it happen. Nothing else. If I continued to put one foot in front of the other (approximately 130,000 per month) I would achieve the goal. I turned on the fitness tracker, laced up my shoes and started running. Within a business context I have the luxury of being able to delegate within a team. But there has always been a gnawing sense that I was simply getting a pass for being undisciplined - lacking the ability to be consistent and follow through until the very end. Like many entrepreneurs I identify as a ‘quick start’. Someone who loves to start things but very rarely finish them. Once the initial romance with the new initiative wares off and I am just left with the arduous march towards completion I tend to abandon it completely and move on to something new and exciting. Maybe you can relate. This challenge was pretty much entirely about consistency. Sure, during the process, I have become a much faster runner and lost nearly 40lbs. But the real reason behind all the running was committing to something extremely tangible, long term that pushed me. ![]() Like many, because of the restrictions, I had a renewed commitment to take advantage of the outdoors. Really using this crisis as an opportunity to get outside and to emerge out the other side of this difficult year, a wiser, stronger, and healthier version of myself. But I also wanted to motivate and inspire the people that have been following me to see what they can do every single day.” Mission accomplished.I decided to challenge myself and run 100km a month for 6 consecutive months. It was back in June against the backdrop of the pandemic. Although the curve was beginning to flatten, all the social restrictions were still in place – the “new normal”. “I wanted to see what would happen to me physically and in terms of fitness in the period of time. “The reason I took on this challenge is because, of course, I wanted to get better at running,” Crockford says in the video. And he plans to keep running in his weekly exercise routine-but just two to three times a week. It simply makes him a smart athlete.Įven though he doesn’t recommend the challenge, Crockford says he does recommend running consistently. But that doesn’t make his completion of the challenge any less valid. In fact, Crockford says he took off Day 18 of the challenge completely due to his own need to rest from illness. The YouTuber says balancing his nutrition with his new upped cardio helped him get lean without losing muscle, which was his ultimate goal.Įven though Crockford completed the challenge, he adds that he doesn’t recommend it as the challenge doesn’t leave room for rest and recovery. That’s about five pounds to us Americans. “In the process of one month of running, I lost about two kilograms,” Crockford says. Though Crockford adds running in the cold mornings wasn’t easy on his mind or body, it did lead to results. Interestingly, he reported running actually made his knee feel better, inferring the exercise acted as a little rehab for the weakened joint. On his last day of the challenge, Crockford intentionally pushed himself “a little harder” than usual and got his time down to 23 minutes.Ĭrockford said he had been dealing with a troublesome knee all year, and was at first worried that the challenge could cause further pain and stress to the joint. The pro didn’t give up weight training during this challenge, finding that his times were obviously slower after a leg day. But Crockford’s time got down to 25 minutes within those first 10 days without even really trying. Over the first 10 days, Crockford said he was getting “faster and lighter,” though he wasn’t running with the intention of decreasing his running time. ![]()
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