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Lessons From the Mountain (opens the original)
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5 a.m Start in the dark! Goal? Summit Pikes Peak!<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1752" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZS3m!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaw
Doing The Real Hard Thing (opens the original)
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5 a.m.-ish today is when I roll out of bed and get the engine going. It seems more days then not I’ve been waking in the 5’s instead of the 4’s the past few weeks. End of summer, pre race and post race… A bit more sleep will do me good. Nonetheless… I never let the sun beat me up! It’s been a daily ritual of mine for well over a decade and I could probably count on one hand the amount of days I’ve lost the race of wake up to the sun.Quiet HoursThe best hours of the day for me are what I call qui
My Best Wasn’t Enough (opens the original)
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It’s a top of the morning to ya! I’m 9 days post 87.5 mile run in the backyard ultra. It’s a 4.167 mile loop every hour on the hour till you quit. I broke my Personal Best by 12 miles but failed my goal of 100 miles: Took me 2+ days to walk on my own after the event, and it wasn’t till a week after that I had the energy to get up off the couch and do much of anything. Gave it my best, I did! With swelled-up black and blue feet, legs, hips and toenail falling off. I left it all out there.It was m
When Your WHY Fails You (opens the original)
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The origins of having a WHY:Friedrich Nietzsche, in Twilight of the Idols (1888), wrote:“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”For Nietzsche, a person with a strong enough reason can endure nearly any method, hardship, or cost. This is such a great line!! Viktor Frankl made it a teaching. He was a Viennese psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz and other camps, and in Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) he quoted Nietzsche’s line repeatedly. He observed that the prisoners who held on to a r
Slipped Disc On Deadlift (opens the original)
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In 2019 I came up against it. Had been going fast for 9 years coming out of high school. Working the coal mines then moving to Indianapolis for a sales job. Lost the job and started building my own businesses (first a gym, fitness coaching, then events). Competitive powerlifter and strongman athlete at the top of the sports. Till one Saturday morning leg day, slipped a disc trap bar deadlifting 800lbs. That day is still sharp — even knowing then it was going to be a bigger deal in some way or an
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