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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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June 27, 2006

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I'm feeling kinda low energy today, so I can use all the help I can get. I was reading Brent's Poignant Irrelevance, and I came across this from an Outside article about Floyd Landis:

There's only one rule: The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins. Period. Because you won't die. Even though you feel like you'll die, you don't actually die. Like when you're training, you can always do one more. Always. As tired as you might think you are, you can always, always do more. --Landis
The phrase that Brent took away is Feed the Goal.
keep walking past that crap and chew some gum. feed the goal. that is my new mantra for the summer. very simple. focus on the goal, and feed it appropriately. both must be in sync. http://metrxman.blogspot.com/2006/06/feed-goal.html

I'm gonna try to keep that in mind.

Posted at June 27, 2006

Comments

hi vj! thanks for the shout-out! thats cool that you took something away from my post, sometimes i don't know if anyone gets anything out of it except me :) it sure is fun to read about those crazy pro-bike riders, they are so hardcore. have a good 4th!

Posted by: brent at June 27, 2006 8:40 PM

I just read this. It's "about" weight lifting, but really its about motivation. Maybe you'll find a bit of inspiration in the tough love message. "Feed your goal." I love it. Thanks.

http://www.skwigg.com/id13.html

Posted by: neca at June 28, 2006 7:10 AM