trail wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
5 letters. The moment you are happy, and not looking to get better, performance goes backwards. Those things are not mutually exclusive for me, thankfully. I find it's possible to enjoy performances, and still go-to-work-with-lunchpail on Monday morning.
Agreed! That first part is complete nonsense and just typical BS motivations videos on youtube kind of talk. I get where it comes from. But if you can never be happy about a result and just keep punching your head into the wall, that will really eat up all motivation at least for me.
Now i might not be a type A personality person in the pure sense, but i always try and set myself some ambitious goals (for my weak athletic standard!), and hope to reach them. I'm never going to be front of pack maybe not even MOP but i try to relate the goals to the amount of training done. If i do 5 hours a week i can't expect to be even MOP.
To answer the overall Q:
I would say around 80 % of he time.
I have done 4 half (7:45, 6;40, 5;30 and 5:59), i have been happy to see progress in all of them, that last one was after 6 months off with no sport at all due to concussion and only 2-3 months training. I have done 1 full and my goal was to complete and so i did. For all my sprints/olympics i have set PRs so been happy with that. But i get that I'm nearing a level where a PR is not usual anymore and that could lead to another feleing.