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"YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED I'M DIFFERENT.  You are, too.  We all are, and I don't mean that touchyfeely We're all different and special kindacrud...\n... endurance athletes are nuts!\nWe do epic shift, and live to tell about it.\nThat we know,but do you know how to harness the general populations's mocking and obvious jealousy?\nMake it public.\nOh yeah, I've heard of that.\nWhat have you heard?\nThat if I make a public pronouncement I can do better.\nDo you do it, have you done it?\nOh no, I'd never to that.\nWhy?\nIt's weird, and kinda scary.\nWhich is my point precisely.\nMaking a public statement of what we want to accomplish is weird, and super scary.\nYou know the story of the crabs in the bucket?\nThey're all in there.  Trapped. And one of them gets the idea to climb out.  Just as he's about to escape their prison the other's pull him back down.\nWhy?\nBecause of the...\nIf I can't have it, you can't either\n... thinking that stinks up everything, everywhere.\nThe thing about it is, though\nWe are truly different.We aren't crabs,or crabby.\nAnd, when we make public statements of what we want to accomplish...\n... yes, for sure the crabs will try and do their thing...\n... and we will have so much more power and commitment and joy...\n... because we are running, riding, swimming scared we will fail.\nAnd that my fine heartrate monitoring friend...\n... is a true public service announcement.\nThose unwitting, dimwitted 6-legged demons in our heads...\n... serve to push us to our best performances ever.\nI've already stated I'm trying to win marathon nationals next month.\nWhat if I fail?\nBig deal.  It's just a bike race.And, I'm a million times better for making the effort.\nHere's another public service announcement:\nI'm looking for 1000 athletes who want to achieve their best A race ever in 2024.\nDeets to follow.\n---\n164.37 hrsRaceDay Ready Circuit20 minutes recovery90 minutes reading + Journaling \nPodcast:\n \nhttps://www.strava.com/athletes/10248\nhttps://www.instagram.com/pedalindustries\nhttps://twitter.com/pedalindustries \nhttps://www.youtube.com/@pedalindustries/featured"
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