How to reach your potential while balancing work, family and everything life throws at you
Summary: Many people can say that they have successfully trained for and run a marathon while balancing a family and a full-time job.<br> Far fewer of those can say that they ran said marathon in under 2 hours 20 minutes.<br> Nate Pennington did just that. Today he’s going to teach you <br> the important lessons he learned that can help you reach your potential <br> while balancing work, family and everything life throws at you.<br> In 2007, Nate ran the California International Marathon in 2:19:35, <br> an Olympic Trials qualifying time. Unfortunately, the race took place 29<br> days after the Olympic Trials race in New York City.<br> He hasn’t let that stop him, though.<br> A tireless worker with seemingly boundless desire to find his limits <br> despite numerous setbacks, Nate continues to train at a high level while<br> maintaining his career as an Army Medical Service Corps officer.<br> Nate was nice enough to talk to us on a Sunday morning. Some of the things we discussed included:<br> <br> How the role of motivation in training is nearly impossible to overstate<br> How patience and persistence are the most important parts of any training program<br> The fact that Nate mostly trains alone and some potential benefits to this approach<br> The Kenyan approach to dealing with bad races<br> Putting one’s training in perspective with the rest of life<br> <br> We’d like to thank Nate for his time and wish him the best of luck in his goal races this year.<br> <a href="http://runnersconnect.net/running-interviews/patience-persistence-nate-pennington/">How to reach your potential while balancing work, family and everything life throws at you</a><br>
