Inspiration for Kicking Ass in 2015

[Sir_T-Cups]

Mine is simple: My damn pants don’t fit anymore

I also want to actually look better. Sure I’m skinny, but I want to be fit too and I’m kinda angry that I’m not!

[Spice_Weasel]

@August_West

Drinking - forbidden
Smoking - forbidden
Caffeine - forbidden

Quitting all of these things is surprisingly easy when the alternative is dying of a stroke.

So now I guess I just have to work on exercising more.

You might be surprised how few people would consider this a legitimate deterrent. People drink, smoke and caffeinate their way into an early grave on a regular basis. Kudos to you for choosing life.

[Chefguy]

@August_West

Oops, I just noticed I put the wrong time in my post, you get 12 hours to complete the 32 mile trail race. I don’t know if they let you take longer or send you back at the next checkpoint.

Perhaps you can ask them to emulate the Iditarod finish and hang out a red lantern:

A “Widow’s Lamp” is lit and remains hanging on the arch until the last competitor crosses the finish line. The tradition is based on the kerosene lamp lit and hung outside a roadhouse, when a musher carrying goods or mail was en route. For this reason, the last musher to complete the Iditarod is referred to as the “Red Lantern”.

They also present a Red Lantern Award.

[Catamount]

@Spice_Weasel

You might be surprised how few people would consider this a legitimate deterrent. People drink, smoke and caffeinate their way into an early grave on a regular basis. Kudos to you for choosing life.

For example: my friend’s grandfather who used to go out behind the shed to smoke because if he did it inside, his oxygen tank might blow up the house. :smack:

I think my unofficial resolution this year is the same as yours, Spice Weasel. I keep telling myself to Do The Thing when I want to procrastinate and it’s helping. I don’t have such a large pile of stuff that needs doing lying around. Can I keep it up? I hope so.

[Spice_Weasel]

@nicole1912

I think my unofficial resolution this year is the same as yours, Spice Weasel. I keep telling myself to Do The Thing when I want to procrastinate and it’s helping. I don’t have such a large pile of stuff that needs doing lying around. Can I keep it up? I hope so.

How much time do we spend planning, worrying, strategizing, or daydreaming about the thing we have to do, when we can just do it?

WODs (Workout of the Days) used to be a terrible burden for me psychologically, because I would spend the whole day obsessing about the fact that I wasn’t doing them. So instead of a 30 minute workout or whatever, it would feel like hours and hours of time invested (wasted) in doing it. So it became this great psychological burden, ‘‘I don’t have time for that.’’ What I really meant was, ‘‘I don’t have time to worry about that for 3 hours before I do it.’’

I’m trying now to do WODs on a schedule. I never have to ask myself, ''Should I be doing WOD now?" Because if it’s anytime other than the scheduled time, I don’t have to think about it at all.

So far this approach seems to help.

[Sicks_Ate]

This is my motivation right now…I was getting excited about my running this year, and decided to re-read some books for more info and inspiration.

This was the first paragraph of the first book I picked up, and it couldn’t have been more perfect:

This is about you and your near future. You, the athlete - and I use that word with full consideration and intent. Because wherever you are in your running life, you can make the choice to be an athlete. You can adopt that mindset and make it your own defining essence. Being an athlete is not something you’re “born with.” That’s a misconception, a myth, really, that is all too often also an impediment - or, even worse, and excuse. Being an athlete is a choice. And making that choice, taking up that mindset, is the step that allows you to move toward a new level of achievement. That’s what this book is about. And that’s what I’m going to ask of you.

• Eric Orton The Cool Impossible.

And since I’m posting anyway, this was freaking hilarious:

@Eutychus

My plan for kicking ass is to always be out of bubble gum.

[Spice_Weasel]

@Sicks_Ate

This is my motivation right now…I was getting excited about my running this year, and decided to re-read some books for more info and inspiration.

I just started the Couch 2 5k running program today. Do you have any running books to recommend?

[Sicks_Ate]

@Spice_Weasel

I just started the Couch 2 5k running program today. Do you have any running books to recommend?

Eek, I’ll try! Some that I enjoy and are on my re-read list:

Why We Run:A Natural History

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Finding Ultra: Rejecting middle age, becoming one of the world’s fittest men, and discovering myself.

I’ll also point out that that I am becoming very fond of nomeatathlete.com, from the above cite.

Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters with the Ultramaration.

Eat and Run: My unlikely journey to ultramarathon greatness.

I think there’s a few more I can’t quite come up with now. And there are several “classic” running books that I haven’t gotten around to reading yet.

ETA The Cool Impossible from my post above.

[Spice_Weasel]

Thank You!