HE HATES IT, BUT HE LOVES IT. ME TOO.
I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE: There is only one way to be great. Nowhere was that better captured than this week when the great Wout van Aert said...
... I hate it, but I love it.
Was it interval training?
Intermittent fasting?
Bike hygiene?
Nope.
It was his loss at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships, to his arch-rival Mathieu van der Poel.
Why would he love it?
A stinging loss at the line?
Because as the great TS Eliot penned, The journey, not the destination matters...
So, how do we achieve greatness?
We go on a quest.
If we're lucky, we find a worthy adversary who extracts not the very best of us, but...
... all of us.
That is why Wout hates it, but loves it.
When we go on a quest, it's a helluvalot more than
- Just finishing
- Standing on the podium
- Being the winner of a crapshoot sprint
The finish line is already known...
... what we are willing to do to get there is the journey.
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What's more fun than a blog post?... me riffing on it.
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164.3
9 hrs Sleep
0 RaceDay Ready Strength Circuit
20 minutes recovery
90 minutes reading + Journaling
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