How Resolute

I’m not one for resolutions. I’ve always figured that if you want to make changes, the time is now – right when you conclude that changes need to be made. That said: sometimes those things happen around the 1st of January – like how I’d like to put more time into video making this year.

Usually, the ‘new year’ vibe I get is at the end of summer. At that time when school is back in session, people tend to return to normalcy and I start thinking about ‘winter projects’ and what I’d like to accomplish. The conscious pilgrim as an entity is one of those resolutions.

Here I am though, having finished the half-triathlon and am staring down the olympic length distance for the spring, choosing a date, piecing a program together to get me there – I can’t help but feel that ol’ NYE vibe. As I type this people are making plans to lose their holiday weight and get into beach mode for in time for the summer and it sort of pains me to know that statistically speaking, most of those people won’t make it. I sincerely hope they find what they need in order to hang on and it would be pure ego to think that I could somehow help someone find that – but I do hope to inspire.

I’m generally pretty humble, perhaps to a fault sometimes. I often undersell what I’m able to accomplish and I’ve made a conscious decision to try and break through that barrier. I read that “A knight never says he’s not a knight to protect the feelings of another. We honor those around us by offering the best of ourselves” and it stuck with me, because humility and pride are not at odds. It’s not bragging when you ‘offer the best of yourself‘ because in ‘offering‘ anything we are in a place of service to our community. It’s with that in mind that I started doing this and it’s with that in mind that I will continue to do so, putting forth an increased effort through 2022.

The training front is a bit different as we enter 2022. The bike, run & swim are central – and increasing in distance as we progress, but a weightlifting component is coming into the fold a couple days a week as well.