Motivation

It’s pantomime season, so the traditional reply to “Look behind you”, after a slow stage-tip-toed circle is “There’s no-one there, boys & girls!” However, 2007 is well and truly behind us now, so here’s my twopenn’th on how I think I did . . . Goals in the bag: Four out of Five: Returned for a second...
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We’re getting toward the time of year where people start thinking about New Year’s Resolutions. Normally like oaths taken in haste, these often spring from the hangover on the first of January, perhaps with a certain degree of OMG . . . NEVER again. This year, I’m turning over a new leaf, and I’ll ....
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I first read about Jane last year when she was taking part in the Race Across America. Jane was a remarkable woman who’s refusal to give in, and her drive to make something positive come out of her incurable cancer is something we can all learn from. Any other words of mine wouldn’t do her...
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No, not a double A-sided single release by Queen in the mid-70’s, but a summary of my Sunday afternoon. Except it wasn’t a race either. Yesterday’s weather was GRIM - rain, 11 celcius, and the wind blowing what my grandmother would describe as a “hoolie” from the northwest. I’d planned to ride up to Consett...
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Actually, I don’t suffer from depression. Not real depression - just the regular kind where sometimes things get on top of me, and I end up a little down. But Thursday’s swim with the NE31 Tri club wasn’t much fun at all. I’d almost ducked out of it on the way there - my shoulder...
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It’s that point in the season when I feel I’m on a treadmill, not wanting to go on, and desperate not to get off . . . “All right, this is the plan. We’ll get in there and get wrecked. Then we’ll eat a pork pie. Then we’ll go home, and drop a couple of...
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I know I should be doing some of this stuff in the gym. “Total body workouts”, involving weights and machines and ‘reps’ and mirrors to keep an eye on my posture / posing - stuff like that. And just about everyone tells me that it’ll mean that the rest of my training will be...
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We had some friends round for dinner on Saturday, and we got into a conversation about fitness. One of the women at the table said she’d really like to be fit (to which I of course replied, “well, you’re not such a bad looker . . .” - can’t take me anywhere more than...
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Yesterday I was looking around the Fixed Gear bikes Gallery to see if Trixie’d made it onto the site, and I came across a short film about a guy who plainly just doesn’t know when to stop. Take a look at the film, and think about this next time you’re feeling de-motivated - if he...
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I’ve been thinking about motivation recently. When I get to the “Why” question, the answer that seems to keep coming back is, “Because it’s there”. But I know there’s more than that to it. When I did my first triathlon, my biggest fear was a not completing the race - a DNF. So I worked...
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