In life it's often the small battles that decide bigger outcomes. Today I won my first small battle. I told myself when I sat down to play poker this afternoon I would play until my Sports Talk shows were over (Jim Rome is Burning, Around the Horn, and PTI) then I would go for a run. Now I hate running like a lot of folks I know, but it is kinda crucial to the sport of Ultimate so I try to go do it from time to time. Some of my friends here in Seattle (Rob, Chuck, and Jay) are doing 28 day challenges to hit the gym and I thought to myself if I wanna play on a top team come May I gotta start training now. So goal 1 for the day, go run, and I did. Here was my route:
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I tend to wander when running as it's not about the destination so much as what you get to see. So when I get to a street corner I just choose a direction and go with it. Unfortunately I started with a 1000ft run up a 30% incline that kinda killed my legs. Now I won't lie and say I ran the full 2 miles here, in fact I probably ran only half of that total distance but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out and do something so i am not stuck indoors.
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"Now I won't lie and say I ran the full 2 miles here, in fact I probably ran only half of that total distance but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out and do something so i am not stuck indoors."
I feel that... sometimes I wind up not working out because I get so mentally worked up over exactly what I'm going to do and what effect it's going to have and whether or not I'm going to do it right and how much time it will take and oh it's dark and cold now and there's a football game on and...
... just going outside and running from the front door to my mailbox and back would have meant doing more than I actually did. That's a bit extreme, but you get the point. It's important to decide to do something, nomatter what... once you start, you almost always come away knowing you've done something to make yourself a better player.
And surprise, surprise, finances are an issue. I'll get back to you on the jersey thing.
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