{"id":154,"date":"2014-12-10T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/?p=154"},"modified":"2014-12-10T11:56:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T16:56:53","slug":"the-lie-i-just-want-to-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/2014\/12\/10\/the-lie-i-just-want-to-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lie: &#8220;I just want to finish&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Find me an endurance athlete that hasn&#8217;t answered this at least once. I will wait, because I don&#8217;t think you can find one. It is an easy answer to give people that really do not understand what and why we do these things to ourselves. When it becomes a lie though is when we start giving this answer to people that do in fact understand these things, particularly when it is not our first rodeo.<\/p>\n<p>I know that I am guilty, and as I talk to other athletes I understand that most of us do it. We tell this little white lie because internally we are fighting a battle with ourselves. There are three translations of this little white lie.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is my first event, and I simply do not know what to expect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is probably the most legitimate usage, particularly early in the training cycle, but even then, I think most athletes have a number that they are internally targeting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I do not want to admit how slow I am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This one I see a lot with people that are ultra competitive and are unwilling to share a target time that makes them look slow\/bad\/out of shape.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve set an unrealistic number in my head and if I tell you and miss it&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the is the killer. I think many of us are guilty of this one, I know that I am. We set high goals, and telling someone else these goals makes them more real, and raises the stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Emotionally, each of these translations have ramifications, but I am going on record that 3 is my reasoning.  This season I will be doing my first events at the 70.3 and 140.6 distances, and yes, I have set unrealistic internal goals. When I say I just want to finish, I am leaving out the last bit.<\/p>\n<p>For the 70.3, I may tell you that is all about finishing, but that last bit that I say in my head is usually &#8220;In a number between 5:30 and 6:30. 40 minutes for the swim, 3 hours for the bike, and 2.5 hours for the run would the &#8216;realistic&#8217;, but in my head, I&#8217;m thinking 30 minutes in the water, 2.75 on the bike and a 2 hour run, which would be a 5:15&#8217;ish finish. and that&#8217;s why I may answer you &#8216;just finish&#8217; because I don&#8217;t really want you to know that internally I&#8217;ll be disappointed with a number that starts in a 7 or greater..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find me an endurance athlete that hasn&#8217;t answered this at least once. I will wait, because I don&#8217;t think you can find one. It is an easy answer to give people that really do not understand what and why we do these things to ourselves. When it becomes a lie though is when we start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}