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May 29, 2012
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The Grind

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The Grind is that time in your physique transformation where you just put your head down and grind it out.

It’s often the time between the initial fast “newbie” results and the final results. Changes are occurring in your body, but you may not see them from week to week.

Mentally, The Grind is also where some of that new program and new diet enthusiasm wears off and it all becomes routine, even boring. There’s nothing left to do or say really; you just work the plan, day to day to day.

But toward the end of The Grind, what’ll happen is that you’ll glance back at your “befores” and realize you’ve made some major changes. Other people will begin to notice. And that positive feedback will reignite the enthusiasm. And that will cause you to kick the training up a notch, leading to more results.

I think The Grind applies to life in general too, not just to losing fat and gaining muscle. There are simply times when we have to put aside all distractions (even the good ones), put our heads down, grit our teeth, and grind it out. At the end of The Grind lies an achievement, something great, or some reward or pay-off. But The Grind always comes first.

Thing is, most people won’t make this sacrifice; they won’t even begin The Grind, much less finish it. And that’s why most people don’t succeed. The Grind is often what separates the great from the average.

It’s as simple as that sometimes.

-Erik Ledin

This…

So fitting that you would post this today!!! Thanks!

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May 29, 2012
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This weekend

I had a pity party for myself!

I laid on the couch and did very little other then eat junk food.

My pants are tight today. My fault.

I need to figure out wtf I am doing and what I want to be doing.

I need to figure out where in the hell my drive went and what is going on in my head.

I need to use this hatred I am having for certain people as fuel for workouts. Not fuel to eat more ice cream. 

I know what I need… So why is it I keep thinking of chocolate ice cream? 

Why don’t I care right now? 

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May 28, 2012
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Lessons From the grand baby’s dad; It is OK to deal drugs around a toddler as long as you close the bedroom door when the actual deal is going down. It is OK to smoke pot while the toddler is in the bedroom so long as it is at the end of a hard day. (he doesn’t have a job) It is OK to be homeless with a toddler if you have a place to stay for the next 2 weeks… Hate sending that lil guy home with them every week :(

Lessons From the grand baby’s dad;

It is OK to deal drugs around a toddler as long as you close the bedroom door when the actual deal is going down.

It is OK to smoke pot while the toddler is in the bedroom so long as it is at the end of a hard day. (he doesn’t have a job)

It is OK to be homeless with a toddler if you have a place to stay for the next 2 weeks…

Hate sending that lil guy home with them every week :(

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May 28, 2012
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Waiting for 2 glasses of NUUN to be ready. I remember why I don’t drink….

Waiting for 2 glasses of NUUN to be ready.

I remember why I don’t drink….

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May 27, 2012
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Today I became a QUITER!

i went out on the bike. Made it 26 minutes before I said fuck it! The wind almost blew me off the road, my toes were already numb, and my lady bits were already throbbing.

I am not riding my road bike again until I get a bike fit! I am done with the pain! I am done doing things when it hurts so bad and then I get so defeated.

I came home changed shorts and went out for a run.

Great cadence without the metronome.

Walked the first few minutes, ran the next 3.77 miles (well except for that minute where I thought I was going to pee my pants in mile 3)

Right after the mile 3 I felt 2 pin pricks on the outside of my left knee.At 3.77 I felt them again and called it. My IT band is fraked!

Came home, rolled and iced, and then rolled and iced a few more times today.

Took a 3 hour nap on the couch!

I don’t know where I am going with training or what I am doing. I am tired of fighting so hard just to get out there. I can’t imagine not training but I also can not keep going at this rate.

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May 27, 2012
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Already 75 degrees and WINDY. Some days I wish it were in me to be a quitter. ….. See ya in about 4 hours.

Already 75 degrees and WINDY.

Some days I wish it were in me to be a quitter. …..

See ya in about 4 hours.

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May 26, 2012
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Plans

All the plans in the world do not always work out…

6 am wake up call. Yep went back to sleep.

Slept in. NEEDED! it!

Hit up the 99 cent sale at goodwill.

Got a haircut

Biked 20 minutes to the garden. Pulled weeds. Hoe’d, planted, and watered. Biked 20 minutes home.

Went to Menards. Got a HORRID heat headache for the next couple hours.

My planned run didn’t happen.

O well. Almost all garden items are planted and I learned I still can’t tolerate the heat :(

Tomorrow for real going out for 40 miles.

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May 25, 2012
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Long story short. I work for a very small business that was just bought out on the 15 th. So far I live the new owners. They are smart and rational. Everything my old boss wasn’t.

I do the estimating for jobs.

I messed up and some fucking how missed 33,000 sq ft on a job. Now we are in a contract and the new people most likely have to eat it. (= > 100k)

I feel worse then horrid.

So, since food cures all I came home and ate every single fucking feeling I could cram into my pie hole.
Chocolate chip cookies (that I made for my bosses) homemade ham and bean soup, homemade corn bread, TJ’s fruit sticks, chocolate covered cherries, sesame sticks, peanut butter chips, and more chocolate chip cookies.

I feel hopped up on speed with all this sugar coursing trough my veins.

Must sleep. Need to get up early and ride 40 miles before it is in the 90’s.

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May 25, 2012
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You know Victoria,

Just because life is crazy and work is ridonkulous that doesn’t mean that you have gained a hundred pounds or that you are any weaker than yesterday…

You are wearing the same size of pants you were a couple of weeks ago. They are not any tighter.

Everything is going to be ok.

Get some sleep tonight and get up tomorrow and bust your ass on the bike.

OK good.

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May 24, 2012
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First 2 a day. Need to get many more of these in. Decent ride. Worked 10 hours. Exhausted. Night night all

First 2 a day. Need to get many more of these in.

Decent ride.

Worked 10 hours.

Exhausted.

Night night all

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May 24, 2012

Great morning run in bullets

- No walk breaks

- Decent splits even though they are positive

- Great run cadence. 89-90

- Feel better prepared to start the day

Riding the cycle tonight for at least an hour.

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May 23, 2012
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Uh Oh

Just found out I messed up a contract by o um over a $100,000……..

If anyone needs me I will be under a rock for a long bit… maybe 100,000 bits… 

Happy Hump day!

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May 22, 2012
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Tonights ride in the worst wind I have ever been in on the bike! It took me 5 minutes to go down 1 hill and up the next. That stretch should have taken about 1 minute. Hopefully it helped make me stronger! Work was bought out and now I can’t be on Tumblr all day :( I miss you guys! Off to bed. Going to try to ride in the am and run in the pm…

Tonights ride in the worst wind I have ever been in on the bike! It took me 5 minutes to go down 1 hill and up the next. That stretch should have taken about 1 minute.

Hopefully it helped make me stronger!

Work was bought out and now I can’t be on Tumblr all day :( I miss you guys!

Off to bed. Going to try to ride in the am and run in the pm…

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May 21, 2012
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2 miles done in the cool morning. I am now ready for my day.

Yesterday had to be the sudafed! I didn’t sleep well and felt jittery all night.

Excited to start a new day.

I see my favorite ART Dr. tonight for a couple of nigglies left from the marathon.

Make it a great day peeps.

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May 20, 2012
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Someone else is tired too.. O and we are keepin this lil guy until Wednesday morning because his parents just have too much going on. Fine by us :)

Someone else is tired too..

O and we are keepin this lil guy until Wednesday morning because his parents just have too much going on. Fine by us :)