'Hyangnoh' Mid-Autumn Festival Course Completion Challenge

Hello everyone! How are you doing?

It's already been 10 days since the Chuseok challenge was followed by the completion of the 'Hyangno' Win challenge.

Is everyone building their passion furnace, laying bricks one by one beneath the surface?

I recently watched videos by Romantic Runner Shim Jin-seok through a team member's introduction.

Mr. Sim Jin-seok is a runner who achieved '20 consecutive overall podium finishes' in marathon competitions in just about 5 months, from March 1, 2025, to August 23, 2025.
What's amazing is that he's not a professional athlete, but works as a scaffolder at construction sites on weekdays and only participates in marathons on weekends.

Even people who have worked on construction sites for a long time say that working as a scaffolder is so difficult that they stick their tongues out in exhaustion.
I was very curious about how you manage to place 1st or 2nd in marathon competitions every time while doing such physically demanding work every day.

You can see how Sim Jin-seok spends his days in videos that capture his daily life.
Since he has to go to work early in the morning for his scaffolding job, it's difficult to find separate time for training, so he uses his commute to and from work for training.

Every day, I wake up at 5 AM and run to work as training, wearing work clothes and work shoes.
Instead of a smartwatch, I wear an old Casio watch and run 8km to the subway station, matching my pace with road signs.
On rainy days, I wear a raincoat and run, they say.

Throughout watching this video, I found myself reflecting on myself a lot.

This morning I wasn't feeling well, so I went to the hospital and found out I had a cold.
It wasn't a severe cold, but the doctor suggested I should rest for a day, and I agreed, so while I was resting and watching this video, I found myself reflecting on how many excuses I had been making to myself.

Of course, as a professional, I think it's natural to improve equipment and surrounding environment for better performance and achievements.
However, after deciding to do something, when taking breaks for various reasons along the way, I did wonder whether those reasons were really worth taking a break for?

So I ended up writing this post in a hurry.
If you've had that thought, I was reminded once again that there's something romantic about taking action in whatever form you can in your current situation, rather than waiting until you have all the equipment or environment set up.

A while back, one of our team members suggested that I try doing a newsletter.
Creating a newsletter subscription page and promoting the newsletter itself feels like... it would make me hesitate to take on more work 😃
If there's content or thoughts that have inspired me, I'll start right away by sharing them as updates with those who have participated in the challenge.

Thank you all for your hard work today.
There are only 49 days left in this year.
If you have any goals you've been putting off during these remaining 49 days, let's start them right away.
Just like athlete Shim Jin-seok, who wears his work clothes and work shoes and uses his daily 8km commute time for marathon practice 😃
I'll also start working on the things I've been putting off.

I have recorded the final live sessions from the 2 challenges.
I plan to edit each of the final live sessions into 20-30 minute segments and make them available for others to watch 😃
I will share them again once the edited videos are ready.