John Wetmore reflects on doubling his running mileage from 10 to 20 miles per week. What felt overwhelming at first became manageable, revealing that his actual limit was further than he thought.
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Dude, when I started running 20, it was like, what is he doing? Why is he running so much? When I— we were trained to run 10 a week. We were literally trained to be broke. It was sad. I was the first one to run 20 a week consistently, and then I was like, then I really started looking at it, and I'm like, this isn't that much either, because it felt overwhelming, the number, at first. I remember, I mean, it's like 30, I'm like, I'm at 20, sounding overwhelming for whatever reason, because I look at it now, it's laughable, you know? And I was like, you Dude, I really wanted to like kill it because again, if I run 20, I'll sit 12, 14 on a good week, you know.