New American in Paris

This is an amazing article right here, one of the best I’ve read! It’s an interview and commentary on Floyd Landis that came out before the Tour. Any aspiring professional should read it and re-read it.

http://outside.away.com/…/tour-de-france-2006-floyd-landis-1.html

From all six pages, I picked up quite a few things, but there was one that stood out far and above the rest. (It’s on page 3.)

A quote from Landis:

“There’s only one rule: The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins. Period. Because you won’t die. Even though you feel like you’ll die, you don’t actually die. Like when you’re training, you can always do one more. Always. As tired as you might think you are, you can always, always do one more.”

That was good, but even better is this one:

“If you overtrained, it means that you didn’t train hard enough to handle that level of training, so you weren’t overtrained; you were actually undertrained to begin with.”

I’m printing that one out in big letters and hanging it on my wall!

If that article doesn’t give you a lesson in hard work and motivation, I don’t know what will!