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Many runners will tell you that the reason they love the sport is because of how solitary it is. Whether they're going out to log a few leisurely miles and clear their head, or are pushing themselves toward a certain speed or time goal, the motivation really comes from within. For a lot of people, it’s why they love running.
Personally, I don't always have ironclad inner motivation like other runners do. Sometimes, it's there. But other times—and lately, most of the time when I've been running races—I've found it hard to find the oomph to push myself to run faster and farther. I've been more into just "going with what I feel" than actually pressing toward a goal—which is totally fine in many cases, except not really when you're trying to prepare yourself to run 13.1 miles in a few weeks.
Maybe I've just gotten a little tired of training for races (I'll have done four half-marathons this year by mid-November). Or maybe it's that I've found other workouts I like a little better, and so now running feels like old news and I’m not as driven to push myself when things get uncomfortable. Either way, the past few months I’ve been really feeling like I needed something to get me excited about running again. So it was perfectly serendipitous when the Nike Running team reached out to ask if I'd join a team that they were putting together to run the Hood to Coast Relay, a 199-mile relay race in Oregon.
The race was in 10 days, and I definitely hadn't been training. (I had been "training" for an upcoming half-marathon, but was really only running a maximum of 5 miles at a time because my heart wasn't in it and I figured, Hey, I’ll just walk if I need to, what’s the difference?) If I said yes to the relay, I'd have to run three separate times over the course of the race, amassing a total of somewhere around 17 miles over approximately 30 hours. Somehow, I dug real deep and found one of the very few spontaneous bones in my body, and said yes. And then I went out for a 3-mile run and decided I was "ready."
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