Stepping out of your comfort zone helps you grow as a runner. That’s the lesson one runner learned after conquering a 21K race with 4,500 feet of climbing.
I was about two miles into the Trannsgrancanaria 21K, which involved about 4,500 feet of climbing up La Plata trail, when I started questioning the decisions I made that had brought me there. I am not a trail runner, I thought to myself, bent over so I could use my hands to push off my quads in the hopes of making this uphill slog over naturally cobblestoned switchbacks feel somewhat easier. What am I even doing here? There were a couple answers to that question.
But that didn’t mean I wasn’t happy to be there, that I didn’t find value in the experience, or, most importantly, that I won’t ever do it again. By the end of the race, I was actually grateful for the opportunity it gave me to step out of my comfort zone. “When you do things that are outside of your comfort zone, it puts your ego a little bit at risk but the benefit—the possibility that exists outside of there—is growth,” says Saul.
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