05/29/2026
Sometimes the wind nearly takes your bike out from under you and while you’re debating how this impacts your route (on newly stone chipped roads), a teenager in a jacked up truck does his best to remind you that he could crush you… 🛻
Days like this can be easy to turn around and say nah… I chose instead to talk aloud to myself for the next hour.
The mantra- hard work and heart. Simple. The two things that I need to accomplish my goal in August. I talked about how this wind was perfect prep for PEI and I smelled that island air. I envisioned calling my kids and telling them I that I finished where I wanted to be. I tasted the lobster roll and beer I am going to have sitting by the water with while we celebrated. I thought about looking for the perfect accommodations for worlds. 🌎
I then reminded myself that in order to do those things I needed to put in the work. The ugly work. The training days that don’t include stopping 😆
Heart and hard work… there’s no magic solution or easy fix. It’s these two things. Here’s to us all figuring out what’s worth our heart and hard work in life ❤️
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