Lessons from training for a hard thing

Photo by Nathalie Désirée Mottet on Unsplash

Sometime last fall I got it into my head that I could run a half marathon (the longest I’d ever run previously was 10K). The plan I’d been following that summer had me doing a 14K long run; a half marathon is only 7.1K more than that! If you can do 14, you can do 21.1, right? This is math.

Next thing I knew I w…