When You’re Burnt Out on Doing the Things You Love

It’s a tragedy to burn yourself out from doing the things that you love to do, but it does happen once in a while

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For the longest time, running has been a huge part of my life. I was an always active kid growing up, so it’s no surprise that an active lifestyle followed me into adulthood. However, it wasn’t until adulthood when I began taking an active lifestyle so seriously, with running in particular. Eventually, it became a matter of taking it too seriously to the point where it became an issue.

When I was training for my first marathon, I never thought that it would be a recurring thing. I thought that it would be a bucket list item that I crossed of my list and be done with, then never run another one ever again — but, how very wrong I was.

Upon finishing my first marathon, I experienced this feeling of euphoria that I had never experienced in the past. It was a profound sense of accomplishment that I didn’t think could be replicated, but again, how wrong I was with thinking this.

My finishing time for my first marathon wildly exceeded my expectations to the point where I wanted to do it again to see how much quicker I could run it, had I put a little more ferocity into my training. In my eyes, my first…