I had lived in Albert Park [Melbourne, Victoria] for almost three years and ran daily. Yet, I had never come out of my front yard and turned right. Every single time I had left my house, I had turned left at my garden gate. I didn’t even have a reason for it. My street was parallel to the beach, so I did two left turns to get to Beach Road. Instead, I could have done two right turns to get there. That was what Corey did, when at the suggestion of my new coach Gavin, he took me on my first mystery run.
I had no time to further ponder our choice of direction. We were only a few minutes into the run, and my concerns were growing. This felt wrong and uncomfortable. Corey was on a mission and, once we heard the first kilometre beep of his GPS watch, he increased the pace. This was a very different Corey from the one I normally trained with. It always took him forever to get moving in the mornings. Now, we were only five minutes into the run and he was running at marathon pace. And so was I. My thoughts were racing: How long would he be doing this? Why was he doing this to me? I should have known better and not said yes to this mystery run. Silly me. Maybe there was a way out of this? Maybe cut it short. Or even better, stop now.
This story is from the May 2021 edition of MAXIM Australia.
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