I made thousands of dollars from running a marathon

Not directly, but the connection is unquestionable.

You’ll never see from me a screenshot of my Medium earnings! In one of my earlier stories, I promised to never post like garbage about my Medium stats, reads, followers, earnings. And I’ll keep my word.

But I do want to admit that I’ve had a good run on Medium. There goes an accidental pun!

I’ve been writing for five months exactly. My first story on Medium was on October 12th, 2021. Exactly five months ago. The story was about my sub-three-hour marathon two days prior. You can read it here and add a few bucks to my Medium earnings!

The race was awesome. I was, I am very proud of my result but, most importantly, it helped me understand the incredible power of habit, of doing something with uncompromising consistency. I don’t want to repeat too much what I wrote in that story but the point was that I hadn’t been training for some goal, like running under three hours. I hadn’t even been training for a marathon. Once I decided to sign up for a race, I knew I could do it well but in the many months preceding, I’d just been — well — running. Every day. EVERY. DAY. It got to the point — and that’s how I am today — that there is absolutely nothing that can make me compromise my habit, except for an injury. Bad weather? I run. Bad day overall? I run. Traveling for work or vacation? I run.

That race provided me with a sense of reset in my life. Not that I suddenly solved all of…