“The more time you spend wanting to be at 26, the more you're going to burn through way more energy, because you're wanting to be somewhere where you're physically not. You are all in this mile right here… Let's get to that fire hydrant right there. Now your race is to that stoplight right there.”

He was hurting just like I was hurting in 2014. My running blades had broken. Everything had gone wrong that particular day. And I just saw myself and him where nothing was working, but I still had. I think we must have ran to him at like mile 14 or something like that. Maybe somewhere in Brooklyn or somewhere in Queens. But it was like, I've been that dude before, and I know where it feels like it's not going to happen today. I'm doing the very best I can. I'm giving everything I got. And that finish line isn't budging. It's still so far away. These mile markers are not happening fast enough. I want to be at the end, but I'm right here. And I wish I could have told the guy, hey, look, and this is what I would have told me back then: hey, forget counting the miles, man. Just be here right now. Like, be here, present right now. Be right here on mile 14. If you're on mile 14, be right here. The more time you spend wanting to be at 26, the more you're going to burn through way more energy because you're going to be wanting to be somewhere where you're physically not. What you do is…