Ken Rideout

fathom a life without it.

But it's like the Gobi March race or any other difficult challenge.

You just have to start the journey.

It's like if you see someone overweight and they start to see a little bit of progress, they can gain momentum.

It starts to get a little bit easier.

The ball's rolling downhill.

It's the same thing with recovery.

Just get one day of sobriety.

Don't worry about the next day.

Because you get one and then you're like, ah, I did one.

I bet you I can get another one.

And it's like anything in life.

You have to build some confidence in yourself.

But the first rep, the first step is always so hard.

I didn't.

I was like, I'm going to get sober and I'm going to like run every single day to get these drugs out of my system, even though I want to die.

I mean, I was running and sweating and freezing and like I'd go to 100 different like ecosystems, although I'm running in Central Park, I'd feel like I've run on the top of a mountain down in Death Valley, like my body was just in chaos mode.

So part of it was penance, like I'm going to run until I die.

And I just wanted to get away from the pain.

And there was part of me that was like, I'm running because when I'm running for 90 minutes at least a day, I'm not thinking about getting high.