You Can Quit But That’s Not Your Style
From my friend Jeff Walker….
The Singlespeed World Championships were held in Durango CO. It’s call the single speed because everyone’s bike has ONE gear instead of the typical 27 gears found on most mountain bikes. The race is 22 miles long, with 5,000 vertical feet of climbing. And it was a tough course… narrow, twisty single track – maybe 18-30 inches wide… with big rocks and boulders and cliffs and roots and drop-offs and such
His son’s seat breaks in the first mile leaving just the naked post. Instead of quitting he decides to keep going and finished the full 22-mile race. It took him right around 4 hours 30 mins.
Can you imagine standing up and pedaling as hard as you can for 4.5 hours? That’s a long time to be standing on your pedals… but he wasn’t gonna quit. Here is the video of him approaching the finish line on his no seat naked post bike.
I consider myself pretty tough but this might be the toughest kid on the planet.
I guess I have no excuses and can’t bitch at my 10 miles tomorrow. At lease my seat will be on, well, I hope it will be on. Either way you get to decided; quit or continue, you’ll make the right choice.
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What a cool story. I read this too and a couple of excerpts from the full story that stuck out to me were:
“Dedication and perseverance can overcome anything life has to offer.”
&
“It’s amazing how having people enthusiastically cheering you on can be so powerful. It literally makes you faster, makes you achieve more…”
This is key in EVERY area of your life. You need to surround yourself with people that are cheering you on. People that celebrate your every success.
These people will spur you to success.
And you need to avoid the people that are tearing you down. The people that are telling you that you can’t do things, that you shouldn’t dream your dreams. These people will tear you down.
Changing your life to have the right people around you isn’t easy. But doing this one thing will make an incredible, breathtaking difference in your life.
Awesome story!!