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the red pill | swim. bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat.
https://dslifkin.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/the-red-pill
Swim bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. There’s a line between can’t and won’t. Can’t implies some true impediment, a valid external prohibitive factor. won’t simply suggests the lack of desire or motivation – the prohibitive factor is internal. People say can’t when they really mean won’t. More often – most often – can’t has no basis in reality. can’t is overused and overrated. can’t is a cop-out. can’t is an illusion waiting to be shattered. What more am i capable of? Where is the line? Just because i can.
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how you doin’? | swim. bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat.
https://dslifkin.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/how-you-doin
Swim bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. How you doin’? Hey motivation. yeah, you. ‘sup. how. Doin’. you’re looking good these days, mighty fine, mighty fine. but why’re you way over there? We used to be close. tight. you scratched my back, i scratched your back. it was good. we had something going. I’m going to lay it out for you here. ’cause motivation, baby, i need you. 2012 is a big year. 2012 is 41. 41 is a lucky race number, the number i will be sporting on my calf for the year. lucky? There it is. ...
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swim. bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. | confessional | Page 2
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Swim bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. I am not an athlete. Bull;August 26, 2011 • 1 Comment. I say these words sometimes, i hear myself utter them outloud. Worse than that: i think them on a regular basis. I am not an athlete. I tell anyone who gets off the couch and does something physical that they are an athlete and i mean it. if you get up and get out there and do something you’re an athlete. first place, last place, everywhere between athlete. not racing, just doing? The reality is: i am an athlete.
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you’ve got to ask youself one question: do I feel lucky? | swim. bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat.
https://dslifkin.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/youve-got-to-ask-youself-one-question-do-i-feel-lucky
Swim bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. You’ve got to ask youself one question: do I feel lucky? 8220;Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Seneca. 8220;Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.” Emerson. 8220;Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.” Sophocles. 8220;I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Jefferson. 8220;You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Can a person be lucky?
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lucky. | swim. bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat.
https://dslifkin.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/lucky
Swim bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. At st anthony’s in 2008 i was walking around before the race, lamenting the fact that i was in one of the last waves, starting well after the pro-field and first few waves had completed the race. i was irritated and focused on how hot it would be for me on the run (which i tanked, but that’s not the point of this story). But it’s more than that. I forget that i can see and i have four functioning limbs. I forget how lucky i am to live in a state without winter. I forge...
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it is a sublime thing to suffer… | swim. bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat.
https://dslifkin.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/it-is-a-sublime-thing-to-suffer-2
Swim bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. It is a sublime thing to suffer…. 8220;It is a sublime thing to suffer and be stronger.”. 8220;It hurts up to a point and then it doesn’t get any worse.”. 8220;When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn’t matter. Am I tired? That doesn’t matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem.”. Address never made pu...
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and you may ask yourself: well…how did I get here? | swim. bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat.
https://dslifkin.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/and-you-may-ask-yourself-well-how-did-i-get-here
Swim bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. And you may ask yourself: well…how did I get here? And you may ask yourself. Where does that highway go? And you may ask yourself. And you may tell yourself – my god, what have I done? Well, how did I get here? Zones Some people have larger comfort zones; some people require less of an external push to leave, but everyone has one. They can grow, expand, flex. They should grow, expand, flex. In all aspects of life, if I’m waxing existential. I’m getting ahead of m...
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here we are. | swim. bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat.
https://dslifkin.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/here-we-are
Swim bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. January, at that. And yet, there it is, in my in-box: “Well, here we are, race week…”. And I get to do it because I am so very lucky. And I need to remember that. So here we are. Race week. I get to go to the Key West and experience 70.3 miles of ocean and earth in a way that few people will. I am lucky to be surrounded by family and friends while I do it. And that’s not a bad way to start 2013. Cheers. To 2013. By debs on January 7, 2013. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Augusta 70.3: Gazelle or Lion | swim. bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat.
https://dslifkin.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/augusta-70-3-gazelle-or-lion
Swim bike. run. eat. sleep. repeat. Augusta 70.3: Gazelle or Lion. 8220;Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”. Hear me roar or… what sound does a gazelle make anyway? Lined up for the swim start. Goal: snag a position c...