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Posts Tagged ‘Going to the well’

Going to the well and Seeing God- How hard should workouts be?

By stevemagness

Going to the well and seeing God: As runners we take pride on pushing through pain and testing our limits. It is essentially what the sport is about. However, there seems to be a finite number of times that we can dig as deep as we can and pull out all the stops. Obviously on…

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