The 64th Edition

Working hard to reach your goals isn’t about reaching your goals, it’s about working hard

We often look at training as if there’s a big red ribbon waiting for us at the end. But there isn’t.

Something to Think About

The point of training isn’t to reach a finish line, it’s to build a life worth living.

Something to Ask Yourself

Are you training for a moment, or are you training for the kind of life you want to live?

Article of the Week

The piece argues that exercise has no finish line – it’s not something you complete, but something you commit to for life. It highlights how consistent movement improves longevity, vitality, and the freedom to fully engage with loved ones, and encourages finding forms of activity you enjoy so they can become a sustainable, lifelong practice.

Track of the Week

This week’s track of the week is…

By the way, if you didn’t know, I put all these tracks in a Spotify playlist…

Personal Lesson

I’ve realised how easy it is to get lost in the short-term. A race, a big event, a specific number in the gym. It all feels like it matters more than anything else in the moment. But when I zoom out, I can see that those things are just small markers along the way. They matter, yes, but only in the sense that they keep me moving.

Over time, I’ve found it essential to keep a wider perspective on why I train and work hard. It’s not for medals or some arbitrary marker of achievement. It’s because I want to live well. I want to move freely, to age strongly, to keep running through the years and not look back with regret. That’s the deeper reason behind the daily grind.

The more I’ve understood this, the easier it’s been to stay consistent. Training stops being about one day in the future and becomes about who I am every day. It becomes less of a transaction – do this now, get that later – and more of a practice. And with that mindset, there’s no finish line. There’s just life, and the way I choose to show up for it.

Running – Life’s Metaphor

Running teaches us that there’s no final arrival. Even after a race, we start again. It’s never finished, there’s always the next day.

Final Thoughts

When we tie everything to a single goal, we risk missing the bigger picture. We forget that the race ends, the medal collects dust, and the moment passes. But the discipline, the strength, and the health we build stay.

This is why it’s so important to train for more than an event. To run not just for race day, but for the days long after it. To lift not just for numbers, but for the ability to carry your life with more ease. To exercise not just to get through a program, but to move through the world with energy and resilience.

There is no finish line. And that’s the best news we could hope for. Because it means every day counts. Every effort matters. Every decision to get out the door or put in the work is not wasted, it’s stacked into the kind of life we’re building.

So instead of waiting for the “big day” to feel like you’ve arrived, let today be the day. Show up. Move your body. Put in the work. Not for a finish line, but because this is who you are, and this is the life you’ve chosen.

Thanks again for reading and subscribing.

Run the runnable, and keep showing up for yourself!

Tommy 🙂