Leigh’s Reviews > This Is About Running. This Is Not About Running. Lessons for Between and Beyond the Start and Finish Line > Status Update

The chapter about training plans (and writing them in pencil) hit me over the past few days as I try to process why that feels like the most profound part of this hobby to me. It’s project management, which I’ve always struggled with. And learning to value the “recovery run” or “easy run” as the essential meat & potatoes of the whole project, even though it doesn’t feel like operating at my full powers

The Wunderlich interlude is nice. I was surprised he didn’t actually spell out the ways it was “not about running” but it’s no great mystery — we are all on a long mountain trail with no idea when we’ll reach the top or when the trail will come to an end.

In the spirit of chapter 16 “measure success as many ways as you can” I’m going to celebrate making it 2% further in this audiobook tonight (after spending the day packing up my office)