Passionate Calling on,” McDougall said. “I thought, ‘I can’t make it’.” That’s when McDougall’s coach appeared. McDougall thought he was there to give him words of encouragement. Not so. The coach hollered from the side of the path, “You’re done. It’s a lot further to the finish line than you remember.” McDougall was smacked in the face with doubt, embarrassed by his early pacing blunders and the fact that not even his own coach believed he could make it. He could have quit. He could have said the race was too long and the hills were too steep. He could’ve even told himself that he’d already proven what he set out to – that he could run with the Tarahumara. But he didn’t. In fact, the doubt gave him clarity. He knew he couldn’t control the hills, the heat or the distance. But he took ownership of the one thing he did have: the ability to take one foot and put it in front of the other. He reached for each step and he endured because he recognized he could do one thing: “Keep pushing Take out the guesswork by advertising in Connections. The only Yates County magazine with documented From how many pageviews to how many clicks, you’ll know it all. Get in the KNOW Nxtbook Media is a partner of the Yates County Chamber of Commerce R.O.I 10 | Connections | May 2009