Subject: RE: What is your MantraTo make myself laugh, it is: "Somewhere behind me, there is an old guy in a speedo chasing me. Go faster!" To give myself some motivation, it is: "There is never another now, so live this moment for all you have." In the toughest of moments, it is: "if you stop now, you'll never forgive yourself." I read Macca's book, and the spot where he describes quitting at Kona and getting in a car only to see an age grouper who was bloodied up carrying his bike after a crash trying to get back to T2 so he could finish really got to me. If that guy, and plenty of other people going through adversity, can finish, there is no reason unless I am scared for my health that I should quit. So "Keep going" gets put on repeat until I push through the toughest spots. Usually, though, it is just something like "JFC this hurts" or "where the h#ll is the finish" or "what the f was I thinking".
Edited by leedyb 2012-09-12 8:40 PM
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