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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Motivation

I am sitting here dodging my afternoon training session while telling myself I have the whole evening ahead to get motivated and do what I need to do. Yesterday I got home from work and stood in the kitchen for a minute or two having a tug of war with myself about whether or not to skip my scheduled run and take the evening off. The fighter in me won the battle yesterday. Not unlike a transition, I quickly changed clothes, found my sneakers and MP3 player and headed out the door. I knew I had to move quickly or I would detour to the couch. As usual once I was outside and a good twenty minutes into the run I felt better and when  finished I was very glad that I had done it. That sense of accomplishment is a powerful one. It is the reason I continue to take on these new athletic challenges. Crossing that finish line after working so hard to get there feels great.  But, so does sitting on the couch :)

4 comments:

  1. I think we all have times of trying to talk ourselves out of the training, but give it a go for 10 minutes and we usually are able to finish the whole thing and feel better for it. Funny how our brains fight us sometimes, eh? :)

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  2. I hope you win again today!!!! Brian

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  3. 90% of the battle is getting out the door, once we are out the door, we are ok.

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  4. Great job getting out the door! I am not an evening person, my couch is the first place I visit when I get off work, but then again I am lucky to have my mornings for training. Keep up the battle, you are winning!

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