A runner reflects on completing a 100-mile race in Leadville, Colorado, and how physical endurance shapes mental clarity. He argues that fitness, nutrition, and sleep directly affect his thinking and energy at work, which spreads to his team. When he arrives energized, the office feels it; when he's exhausted, so does everyone else.
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Your mind changes and shifts after the experience, but even more years afterwards when you keep reflecting on things that you experienced or were challenged mentally and physically with. I believe that going to this 100-mile race in Leadville, Colorado, it's like I know my body at some point is going to say stop, but mentally it's like we'll just keep driving the bus. Same in business. Like at some point in business, you're gonna think, oh man, I'm tired, but it's your responsibility to take care of yourself. And that's why fitness is so important for me from a business side, is if I take care of myself with nutrition and proper hydration, if I feel My mind is more clear. My energy is higher in the office, which completely shifts the culture here. I know that if I come in here and I'm tired, that trickles down and everyone's affected in this building by it. But if I come in here high off life after a 10-mile run and my energy's high and I'm feeling good and I last the whole day and I train with the team in the evening, everyone feeds off that. So it's also a leadership responsibility. And I believe that like your mind is so powerful that it has to drive your physical being.