Mayito Minutes

"Someone has your same situation and is winning with it."

I go into why I don't necessarily agree with this Tweet.

This episode discusses something that happened to me yesterday as I was scheduled to begin my structured training again for the 2019 season.

Let's talk Tiger Woods and his apparent comeback.

Why is it that we think we can plan and prepare for all that our opponent (life) throws at us while we wrestle with it? Here's what we should be doing instead.

Look at life as a wrestling match versus a dance.

This week’s podcast episode comes from a real conversation I had with an athlete that I coach. There are some really valuable insights and principles that both I and the athlete use to prepare us for tackling next year’s road race season and adding onto the development that we saw this year.

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How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

-Socrates

We don't need a vacation. We don't need a new job. We don't need to move to a different city.

Payson Mc Elveen is a professional Mountain Biker who rides for the Orange Seal off-road team and is a Red Bull athlete. Payson currently lives in Durango, CO and has been there since he moved there to attend Ft. Lewis College in 2011.

Payson’s accomplishments are many, but here are a few of them:

-2x Marathon National Champion 2017, 2018

-Bronze Medal XC National Championship 2017

-3rd Leadville 100 2017

-2x World Championship team member

-2x Pan American Games team member

-Best Young Rider 2015 Trans-Sylvania Epic, 3 stage wins, 2nd overall

-5x National Champion with Fort Lewis College

In this episode I catch up with Payson to hear about what he’s currently up to and how he is handling his continued success in the sport. Payson is always a great guest and this episode is no exception.

*Update: Payson recently won the Red Bull San Francisco Bay Climb that he references in the interview.

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Do not let the future trouble you.You will come to it possessed by the same reason that you apply now to the present.

-Marcus Aurelius,

Meditations 7.8