I've figured a few things out in these days of stupid heat, pro envy and killer crits. Sticking around local races can get your confidence up and is good for morale, but big races like this put the big picture in perspective. It's safe to say that I'm in a pretty small group of top sprinters (road and track) in the Portland area, but thrown into a big-time race like this I fall into a big group of average joes who fight just to finish, let alone go for any placings or money.
Seems the biggest struggle so far has been with failure to commit to anything (university, racing, career). I'm not getting to where I want to be in cycling by continuing on the present course. SO. It's time to go. Time to do it. Give it a go. I'm not giving up on the rest of my life, just scaling a few things back. Take fewer classes for a couple years, concentrate on training in the winter instead of trying to juggle 3 ambitions at once. As for the rest of the season, I may not be winning any pro events, but a nice new jersey from track nationals would be a great motivator... DT
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So if you go for it, then you need to be willing to do one thing, and one thing alone. . . . . be willing to dig so deep, hurt so bad, go out of your comfort zone too much and still be willing to accept the fact that you still can lose but know that you put everything on the line to win . . . even your soul - then you will be able to find that little extra reserves to win in the big world . . . . because most of the peleton your racing against out there is scared or unwilling to put it ALL on the line because it hard to look in the mirror at the end of the day and say, I gave it a 110 percent and those other guys are just better than me. -Remember that when your racing. You need to dig, be willing to hurt more than that guy next to you who is only willing to give the race only 90 percent of his effort and already has an excuse line up for why he didn't win.
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right on bro.
geet'r'done! because when you are too old and can't do it anymore, knowing that you put everything into it is worth more than one would think.
It's not about what you think you should do this year, it's all about what you do TODAY. Did you train today? Or did you find an excuse? Did you train for five hours today? Or did you train for one hour and convince yourself that that's enough? Because somebody else went for longer today. And he will win next time.
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