Attention, then:
1) Alertness
2) Applied capacity or reserve (span)
3) Selectivity
Once has the choice. To stay attentive, or not. That is the only question. Not, how fit, how fast, or how fat. Not how far or how hard. Not anything else.
How long can you maintain your focus. Hills, wind, traffic, pot-holes, impaired drivers, hungry dogs, disgruntled ex-employees, broken glass, smog, cigarette butts, butt-heads, bubble-headed bleach blonds, runny noses, watery eyes, rubber burning, diesel exhaust, road kill, gnats, billboards, stop signs and signs of fatigue. All distractions.
Spice Girls, Christmas Carols, deer in the headlamp, the fiscal cliff, fingernails on the chalkboard, inflation, $5 Starbucks lattes, your hair, global warming, gun control, same-sex marriage, Iraq, Syria, MEXICO, Monsano, Blackwater, Limbaugh. ALL DISTRACTIONS.
Choose your distractions wisely.
Stay alert.
Increase your capacity and extend your reserve supply. Broaden the span.
Select what you can control and jettison the rest.
Friends don't let friends win hollow. They insist they earn full-bore results.
My race is with me. I have no issue with you, or that.
Let's be friends.
And please remember that we are friends when I kick your butt. It is nothing personal, just racing.
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