Motivation!!! Race day is Sunday morning I’m planning on pre riding the course Saturday night! I have been off and on the trainer for the last two weeks with some XC rides… yesterday I was exhausted from work and allergies today I a little bit tired from the same but lack motivation… I can’t leave …

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I focus on my goals, and remind myself that negative thinking doesn’t help me get to them :slight_smile:

In my experience, motivation will always come and go but it is discipline that will get you through. If you make things habitual then you are more likely to ensure that you don’t have to rely on motivation which is always so fickle in human beings. My advice is to make things easy, water bottles in …

Early am rides / run/ swim is how I do it. Even when I don’t want to, I (normally) do what is on my schedule. (Example: today skipped swim but did a ride instead as I needed to be home for the family this am). Lots of music. What the Trek CX Cup. I watched the women’s this am and was very pleas…

I’m not one for motivational videos but watch this and remember it: [Discipline Over Motivation]

[image] Minihack: What do you all do to get yourself motivated to get on the trainer? I take a break. This is just a hobby, for fun, to take up some time etc…if your not a pro (maybe even if you are a pro) why find motivation doing something you don’t want to do? I don’t get it? Do somethi…

Give yourself (or myself) a break. Beating yourself up achieves very little in my opinion. Life, real life, often gets in the way and I think you have to accept that fact. Regardless of how much planning and preparation you do, there are those times that the unexpected can and does happen.

This close to your event you aren’t going to change your fitness - take a few days off, you’ll be fine Alternatively - when you are far from your event - focus on the process and why you’re doing the things you’re doing. The why is what gets me on the trainer in January

Struggling too. A hard summer of non-stop work, training, parenting, trying to be a good partner, son, employee, father. At some point priorities shift and getting that PR at the last race of the season may not happen. Being ok with that is a start. Or, HTFU and make it stick. Either way. It’s…

You only have so much energy to expend. Sometimes you need to take a step back from the bike and take time off. Catch up on your other parts of life and get that balance back. We can’t crush it year round, so sometimes you need to crush the other things in your life, so then you get your motivation …

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