Endurance and Persistence

As you can probably guess from previous posts, I love drawing analogies and comparisons between the things I've learned as an athlete and the things I've learned running a company.

Recently I've been thinking a lot about endurance and persistence. Since January, I've been doing 14-16 mile runs on the weekends. For me, this is pretty epic -- I've never done this much running in my life.  I am not a naturally talented runner, and before I started doing these longer runs I really did not like running all that much. At the same time, it's the sport I need to work on most in triathlons so I'm making it happen. It's taken a great deal of motivation, persistence and determination to complete these runs.

When I first started doing my long runs it was nearly impossible for me to think about them in their entirety. It was too overwhelming. To get through them, I used a lot of self-talk and setting small goals (common refrains in my head during these runs: "Ok, I'm at mile 9, I just need to get to 9.5", "Just run to that lamp post over there", "Just get over this hill and reassess", "I'm going to count to 100 before I look at my watch again", "If I can get through this last half mile I'm going to have the biggest bagel sandwich I've ever had, then go to Ample Hills").

Breaking up the runs into little goals made the task of completing them more manageable.

Starting a company, or a new project (like a podcast!) is a lot of the same.  When I think about all the things we need to do at ScriptEd it's incredibly overwhelming.  We take time to make big picture plans, but most of my time is breaking down all of those big things we need to do into small action items. I love check lists (and checking things off those lists).  We'll always have more work to do, but getting little things done every day helps me know that we're making progress.

Announcing "Lost in Transition" - A Triathlon Podcast

I'm excited to announce "Lost in Transition," a triathlon podcast that I'm co-creating + co-hosting with fellow Brooklyn-based triathletes Mat Ward and Ben Kessel.  The show will cover all things triathlon with a little Brooklyn flavor, and will feature interviews with local triathlete and cover local races.

We recorded our teaser episode this week -- listen here  (disclaimer: I'm guilty of almost everything Mat and Ben talk about in this episode). 

Our first full episode will feature Danny Pego, aka BrooklynTriDad, and will be available sometime next week.

Please subscribe to us on iTunes or Soundcloud, and like us on Facebook.

Enjoy!

ScriptEd's New ED!

I'm excited to announce that I'll be stepping down as ScriptEd's Executive Director to pursue my life long dream of sleeping eight hours a night.

In my place, our intern Rebecca Ligier will take over as ScriptEd's Executive Director.  Rebecca, while only 19 years old, is a ScriptEd alum and has shown tremendous leadership ability during her time with ScriptEd.  She frequently expressed aspirations of running ScriptEd at some point in her career. She is looking forward to tackling this new challenge, and the ScriptEd staff can't wait to work under her guidance. I've mentioned Rebecca a few times on this blog, including in the post "Kids Say the Darndest Things."


(Obviously, April Fools!)

This has been a crazy week at work, so this is all I've got for this week!  Happy Friday everyone!