#competing

Its truly amazing to see people with DIFFabilities compete in the Paralympics!

Their courage, their determination! The way they keep moving forward in life, not letting their differences hold them back.

Go Paralympians !!!

🤟☺️👍🇺🇲👨‍🦽👩‍🦽👨‍🦯👩‍🦯

Are you watching?

Tulips as if

The spring of her world

Blooming and competing

チューリップ

我が世の春と

咲き競い

Some of the books that I will be posting about are:

- Running with the Buffaloes, by Chris Lear

- Let Your Mind Run, by Deena Kastor

- Eat & Run, by Scott Jurek

- How She Did It, by Molly Huddle and Sara Slattery (with interviews with many elite, women distance runners)

- The Performance Cortex, Zach Schonbrun

- Once A Runner, by John L. Parker, Jr.

- Strong: A runner’s guide to boosting confidence and becoming the best version of you, by Kara Goucher

- The Competitive Edge, by Richard Elliot

- (memoir by a soccer player) When Nobody Was Watching, by Carli Lloyd

- Running to the Edge, by Matthew Futterman

- Brain Training for Runners, by Matt Fitzgerald

- Bravey, by Alexi Pappas

- How Bad Do You Want It?, by Matt Fitzgerald

Positive Attitude, Work Ethic and Winning at Life

Someone shared this with me today and I decided to write about the motivation it gave me instead of my other topic.  The quote above talks about mindset, attitude and putting in the time and effort to win.  Roger Clemens was a dominating pitcher in major league baseball from the 1980’s into the early 2000’s.  He had a Hall of Fame career and worked his tail off to be the best he could.  I liked…