The 56th Edition

The difference between those who do and those who don’t…

Something to Think About

If you don’t have the time for running, that must make you the busiest person who wants to run. If you’re correct, there mustn’t be a single runner busier than you.

Something to Ask Yourself

Is it possible for me to make the time for my running?

Article of the Week

Here’s 6 helpful tips to make time for your running 🙂

Track of the Week

I’m in the States right now, so I’m driving down country roads listening to Chris Stapleton.

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

There was a time I worked 70-hour weeks. Back-to-back sales calls, Slack threads at 9pm, emails on Sundays. It wasn’t sustainable, but it was real. And somehow, in the chaos, I still ran. Still lifted. Not perfectly, but consistently. Not because I had time, but because I made time.

I stopped looking at running as a luxury and started treating it as non-negotiable. A meeting with myself. It didn’t need to be long, sometimes just 30 minutes at lunch or 45 minutes before work. It was a habit built out of stubbornness more than anything else. And once it was in my routine, I protected it like everything else I said was important to me.

Yes, it’s harder when life is full. Kids, work, commutes, responsibilities, these are real things. But I’ve met exceptional runners who have all of that and more, and they still lace up. Not because it’s easy, but because it matters to them. I’m not in that season now. I have more flexibility than before. But I’ve been there. And I know the difference between doing it and not doing it usually comes down to one thing: prioritisation.

Running – Life’s Metaphor

When you choose to make space for what matters, everything else shifts to accommodate. Running teaches you that time doesn’t find you – you find time.

Final Thoughts

We all have different capacities. Some seasons are heavier than others. But within almost every life, there’s room for something. A few runs a week. A short strength session. A long walk on the weekend. You don’t need to be a full-time athlete. You just need to carve out a slice of time that says: this matters.

If you wait for your calendar to feel light and easy, you’ll be waiting forever. Instead, start small. Commit to what’s realistic. But commit. Because there’s something powerful about showing up, even when the conditions aren’t perfect.

This isn’t about guilt or shame. It’s about honesty. About recognising that most of the time, the barrier isn’t time, it’s decision. It’s the willingness to say: this is a priority, even if just for 3 hours a week.

Once you do that, you’ll be surprised how quickly it becomes normal. How quickly the story you tell yourself about not having time starts to unravel. Because you made the decision to make it matter. And that changes everything.

Thanks again for reading and subscribing.

Run the runnable, and keep showing up for yourself!

Tommy 🙂