Man, I struggled through my rowing this morning. I just could not get in the groove. I couldn’t get lost in my audiobook, I couldn’t get lost in a TV show, I just kept looking at the distance and it was just not going down fast enough. Eyes on the prize and all that jazz. I finally just found a spot on my machine and focused on it and wouldn’t let myself look away. It helped some but I definitely had a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. One side saying, “come on, you don’t want to do this anyway and you’re already halfway..one day won’t hurt to stop here. You could always come back and finish later.” And the other side was telling me, “no. Don’t stop. You’ve got this. You’re already halfway there. If you stop now you will be so mad at yourself and beat yourself up over it. You’ve got this.” In the end, that little angel was louder and I finished 5000m in one of my best times yet. I’m not sure how that happened, really, but somehow it did.

Days like today happen. You don’t feel it, you can’t get in the groove, you just want to quit but I’m here to tell you, my friend, you’ve got this! Don’t listen to the little devil on your shoulder telling you that you can “just do it later” and quitting is ok because “you deserve it.” Don’t listen to those thoughts! Let that little angel on your other shoulder be your strength because what you really deserve is the pride you’ll have in yourself when all is said and done. When you hit that finish line, per se, and you just sit there for a minute out of breath, dripping sweat, and you are so spent physically and emotionally that all you can do is just hang your head and close your eyes, that moment is the moment you should be proud of because you fought today! You gave it all you had and look…YOU WON!

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