Running rewards the willingness to endure the slog.
If you stay disciplined and keep climbing through the dense, painful mist, you eventually reach a boundary line.
You break through the ceiling of the fog layer and emerge onto the sunlit ridges of high performance.
Suddenly, the effort shifts. The air is clear, the perspective is limitless, and what felt impossible from the valley floor becomes a state of effortless flow.
You have to run through the darkness of the valley inversion to earn the clarity of the summit.