I would always get that "I didn't know track season started yet" or "man, i saw that guy running [up near a road 3-4 miles away]" from the janitors from my school. Often, I would go running later after practice or really early in the morning and the janitors were usually the first to arrive and last to leave there. I think I knew them all and somehow I could relate to them ... in that you had to work so hard and no one would ever recognize how hard you worked cuz no one would ever be there to witness you running all those miles or a janitor cleaning all those floors.
"you cannot just say you're dedicated, you cannot just say you're motivated, you cannot just talk about your strengths, you have to prove it" -Lance Armstrong