The little things that can motivate your training

Don't you ever have these moments that hearing of a single fact makes you think of the past and dream of the future in a tenth of a second?

What I love the most during my training and racing period are the little things that can boost my confidence and motivate me every day. Things like, how awesome was that race I won two years ago, how much I struggled to get that 5K PR, how good I was in everything I was focusing to give myself 100%.



One of those thoughts snapped me yesterday as I found out a cool fact about my former cycling career. I was not top-notch as a cyclist but at the same time I didn't have the chance or the time to develop as an athlete. The fire was there but never got lightened up. During my only 4 years of competitive cycling, I had the unique chance to finish 12th overall at the 2003 1st International Tour of Rhodes, a Cat 2/3 4-stage road race. I just found out that the overall winner of 2001 and 2002 was the now famous Fabian Cancellara, although back then it was his debut year as a pro:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_of_Rhodes

What an awesome feeling right?

Stay tuned, stay motivated.

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