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Are You Really Going To Let That Stop You?

August 12, 2011 By Joel Runyon 23 Comments

I'm working on some pretty big things behind the scenes lately. They're not quite ready to share, but sometimes when working on projects, I start and stop and start again, but little things come up that threaten to stop them from happening. This is one of those little things. *** The site keeps getting bigger and bigger and a few months back I began brainstorming an idea for scaling the site and it's functions. I had a specific idea in mind to reach more ...

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Filed Under: Fitness, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: are you really going to let that stop you?, dont stop, keep going, really?

The Upside To Disappointment

August 9, 2011 By Joel Runyon 20 Comments

Every once in a while, I'll have a race that doesn't go as planned. This race this past weekend was one of those. I woke up late for the race. I didn't have directions to it. My bike got stuck in 2nd gear for half the race. I didn't run a decent pace at all. At the end, I crossed the finish line, looked at the time and shook my head in disgust. I was disappointed. I was disappointed that my time was slower than I wanted it to be. I ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: disappointment, keep going, Triathlon

How To Keep Going When You Don’t Feel Like It

August 17, 2010 By Joel Runyon 66 Comments

This has literally been the hardest post I've ever written. Not that it stems from something deeply personal or anything like that, but it's has literally just been very hard to write. I sit down at my computer and get ready to write it and I just keep finding other things to do. My hands don't want to type and my mind isn't putting up much of a fight. A quick search of google gives me reasons supposedly why I'm having trouble writing [none of them ...

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Filed Under: Hacks Tagged With: david crandall, determination, keep going, life, mark lawrence, perseverence, sean ogle

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