But that’s not a sentence.
Also not one sentence.
“Endure.”
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Keep up with your training sessions for as long as possible to ensure old age remains fun.
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I train therefore I am.
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Doing this helps me feel temporarily happy and will hopefully find me a permanent partner.
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Always remember why you started this journey in the first place.
Always show up and just ride what you got.
Shouldn’t have changed to TR, wasted 6 weeks of training
Ride hard, recover smart, eat well.
Well I can’t run now since my knees are shot so lets hit the bike until the saddle sore develops and I have to run instead.
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Train hard and laugh harder to reach your goals.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen the only sentence needed for cycling.
HTFU
Its a left sided power meter and I am 60:40 right 
Training, like everything else in life, requires hard work and a consistently good balance of inputs (neither too much nor too little) in order to yield good results; but it should also contribute to the overall balance and joy of your life, since the goal is not to succeed today but to succeed in life: by living fully, serving a purpose greater than yourself, and aging well.
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If “easier” translates to more watts/Kj’s during training, then easier is usually the right path. There are no bonus points for suffering by restricting food/hydration or cooling, it’s actually the opposite in most cases. An “easy” workout at 200w is going to beat a “suffering” workout at 190w every day of the week. There are certainly mental gains from suffering and some other benefits like heat adaptations that might come into play for short stints, but for the bulk of your training you want to grab every advantage you can to maximize the work you can perform.
That’s a very binary view, and as to which offers the better stimulus; has it actually been studied? If the body found something easy, where is the stimulus for it to improve, since it can already handle it?
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I’m not saying that some forms of suffering don’t come with their own associated adaptations (heat is a good example). But if you are trying to drive aerobic fitness long term, more Kj’s is going to drive more adaptations. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a study specifically on the topic, but I’ve certainly seen it discussed as a common mistake that many amateurs make and the logic seems sound. I have seen several studies on the downside of training at altitude and I see this in a similar vain. Yes, there are some short term benefits to training in the high mountains, but at the cost of long term fitness gains (since you can’t put out as much power).
Also, I’m not saying you can just cruise along at an “easy” pace and expect adaptations. I’m saying adding extra suffering that doesn’t result in more work/watts is often doing more harm than good. I’m thinking of the person riding the trainer in a pool of sweat with minimal cooling thinking that the suffering is somehow pushing their fitness higher when they should have gotten some decent fans and done the workout at a higher wattage.