PenteKing’s BodyBlog

…before my 70 mile bike ride for the American Diabetes Association, and I’m training like the event is going to happen tomorrow morning. A friend of mine told me that I should back off some so that I’ll save some energy and enthusiasm for the actual event. He’s afraid that I’ll leave it all in the gym and on the training route and have nothing left in the tank for the big day.

I reject that philosophy. Train like your life depends upon it, each and every day because you never know when you’re actually going to be tested. Something could happen tomorrow that calls upon all your resources. If you slack off, then you won’t have the reserves to call upon when it genuinely counts. You’ll be weighed in the balance and found wanting, and that, my friends, is the worse defeat at all.

 More later.

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