Why do I cycle… Why do I ride? Why do I workout? Why do I train?
Everything inside of me says go back to bed. My body aches and screams in defiance of the up coming work out. My muscles feel heavy and sore. My thoughts are telling me more sleep, do the workout tomorrow. But I know tomorrow they will say the next. I hear voices saying “it’s not worth it’ “you’re just spinning your wheels and you’re not getting anywhere So I choose…. I choose not to listen to my emotions, to the demons saying, “you’re not fast enough, your not strong enough. You’re too old, you’re too late.” Life is like cycling….. you can put off reading that book, going to class, getting that degree, paying that bill. You can put off going to the gym, going for that run, going for that ride. You can listen to those voices telling you, “ you’re too old, you’re too fat, you’re too skinny. You’re comfortable now, there’s no need to push.
It’s easy here, it’s comfortable” When you decide to turn your back on those voices, telling you all those things. When you decide to walk the other way. That’s the start. First step Now the work begins… the change starts, the growth, the pain, the victory. You still hear those voices but now you’ve stood in rebellion. You look them straight in the face and yell. Knowing that today you will win. Today is a day that you overcome, you are greater than those voices, then those people that have told you, “ You can’t!” Today is the day that you will. You feel those doubts, you feel those fears, that insecurity is reminding you of all those horrible things that people have told you, that at times your believe. You realize that your greatest opponent is yourself and those thoughts….so you push ..
You push hard. This fight is between you and your doubts, your fears. You dig so deep that all you hear is your heartbeat and you drown out the devil on your shoulder telling you “that your opponents are stronger than you.” So now the other voice is getting louder, the other voice that tells you, “you can push harder, you can dig deeper, you can pedal faster” Now you hear the lion inside you roar. Now you know you can go faster. Now you look at those demons reminding you of your previous failures and you say “Is that all you got! ” Now all of those demons are standing 2 inches tall and you’re standing 10 feet tall and with every pedal you take they get smaller. Because you know. You know that you are wining …that today is the day that you declare victory over all those thoughts, all those fears, all that doubt Now you picture all those people… the people that have said you can’t and you smile.
You smile back at them, because you know… You know you CAN!
So why do I cycle… Because I CAN .
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