Keeping ones focus

As the holiday season is upon us, we are so easily distracted and swayed to miss/skip out on our physical path. It’s too easy to hit the snooze button to bypass that early morning run or have a bigger lunch and feel ‘too full’ to hit the gym early evening.

But for those of us that have a destination in the middle or past the holiday season we are kept on track. The best way to combat those dinner parties or feeling like you need to stay and entertain is to have a destination that you are training for.

I was personally reminded about this the other week. I was at a function with some friends, mingling and sampling the appetizers being carried around the venue. Two girls walked up to me and asked me if I was at a Halloween party the previous year dressed as a lumberjack.

‘Well yes I was’ I replied with a smile.
‘Ya, you had to leave early to run a ½ marathon or something…’ she responded…

It hit me that if it hadn’t been for that ½ I had to get up for the next day that I would have stayed out late continued to party it up at that party…

Fast forward 1year. My new commitment is a spin class that I coach on Sundays and another ½ marathon that I am running in a couple weeks. Those are my focuses these days and have been for a while now. I still manage to get out and enjoy my social time, but I have promise to myself to be prepared for my physical obligations.

Just to get you up to speed, Ill miss a workout here and there and do my best to make them up, but for the most part (like 95%) I’m on-point with my training, recovery and it feels great.
We can see it in our customers when they are dialed. Arriving early, nutrition (fuel), stretching (flexibility) and their focus is on the task at hand.

In a week we are leaving for Vietnam and then traveling to Cambodia to run a ½ Marathon and we are seeing it in real time with those that are registered for Cambodia, Honolulu and even the UBC Triathlon.

You know what’s coming…

Destination + commitment = focus
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Challenge + Adversity = Victory