“Look at your ‘Why.’ I think that is really important. “If I were training today, I’d be heartbroken,” she said.īut she has advice from her own training on how runners can keep themselves going-look at your WHY. She acknowledges that MCM runners today have their own challenges as the event shifted to a virtual status to prevent the spread of COVID-19. “I felt that the training was going to be so challenging for me and take so much mental endurance as well as physical endurance that if I did it as a fundraiser, it would just provide that extra motivation when my body started to ache and I didn’t want to get out of the house in the morning to do a training run,” Gold, the author of Wellness by Design (Tiller Press, 2020) said. She found that fundraising helped her commit to the run. Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) veteran and former Fisher House fundraiser Jamie Gold ran the race in 2016, but she had to ramp herself up for training.
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