Love this! Some parents say, “we didn’t see improvement in our child’s performance after that season of baseball. The two reasons that generally occurs:
1. You didn’t practice with them enough to give them a chance any any meaningful outcome results
2. You defined “improvement” incorrectly. Did they get 1% better from the start to the end? Did they do 1-2 things better than the season before?
If so, congrats! You are on the journey, but you only get out of it what you put into it.
I particularly love your point 2. I agree that children, especially, need to learn what improvement or gains look like - and us adults do too! Like you say, 1% is still improvement!
To stick with something long enough for real change to happen, does a person need to genuinely want it? And if they do, doesn’t that make it easier to endure the lack of short-term results?
In other words: do you subscribe to the saying “if they want it badly enough…”?
This is a little snippet of the outright winner of Cocodona 250 and what slow burn in progression means in any domain of life.
One has to understand this. Training is quite subjective as everybody's background and many other things vary. It is all about keep showing up because consistency is the name of the game and no ego training. Just take it easy & keep JOY and CURIOSITY in whatever you pursue because if one needs to be their best version, then it can only happen if we stick to it for long term.
All the benefits in life come from compound interest — money, relationships, habits — anything of importance.
Somebody had to break the shackles and Rachel Entrekin did it.
9 years ago, in 2017- Courtney Dauwalter won the inaugural Moab 240 Endurance Run outright, finishing the 238-mile Utah course in 57 hours, 55 minutes, and 13 seconds. She finished over 10 hours ahead of the second-place finisher.
When the field is stacked, you won't be able to witness this kind of performance repetitively. What I am loved about Rachel Entrekin is the way she has run this race from the front. She has shown immense self belief, immense fierceness & fearlessness.
That's how you run races. You got to believe in yourself to the point it seems delusion and it is okay if no other person understands it.
The more I was amazed by Courtney's kick at Chianti Ultra Trail by UTMB is what Rachel did. This has been a long arduous path for her. It will be great to see her competing with international athletes in some of the deepest fields. Keeping that SELF BELIEF alive is quite difficult at times but she kept the fire burning and she totally belong amongst the best of the best and Chianti was a testament to it, now she has cemented her it more so.
I also listened to her podcast on Singletrack & loved the part where she told she is open book. I also believe in putting my training or whatever it is in to the public.
She had been chipping away with consistent progress. It is not an overnight success, she has been competing for almost 12-13 years. Everything is a slow burn and nothing comes easy and it generally takes more time than one thinks but it is all about KEEP SHOWING UP.
This is such a good example of what sustained discipline actually looks like in real life.
From the outside, people often see the breakthrough moment and assume confidence, talent or motivation suddenly appeared. What they usually don’t see is the decade of repetition underneath it.
That’s why I liked your phrase “slow burn in progression.”
Most meaningful growth works like that. Quietly. Gradually. Often invisibly for long periods of time.
What Rachel Entrekin’s story shows is that consistency is rarely glamorous while you’re inside it. It’s just showing up again and again before there’s external proof it’s working.
I also think your point about joy and curiosity matters massively because discipline built only on pressure eventually becomes difficult to sustain. The people who last usually stay connected to something deeper than outcomes alone.
And you’re right — self belief at that level can almost look irrational from the outside before results arrive. But often the people who achieve extraordinary things are simply the ones willing to keep believing for longer than most.
“Consistency is the name of the game” is probably one of the simplest and truest performance lessons there is.
Love this! Some parents say, “we didn’t see improvement in our child’s performance after that season of baseball. The two reasons that generally occurs:
1. You didn’t practice with them enough to give them a chance any any meaningful outcome results
2. You defined “improvement” incorrectly. Did they get 1% better from the start to the end? Did they do 1-2 things better than the season before?
If so, congrats! You are on the journey, but you only get out of it what you put into it.
I particularly love your point 2. I agree that children, especially, need to learn what improvement or gains look like - and us adults do too! Like you say, 1% is still improvement!
To stick with something long enough for real change to happen, does a person need to genuinely want it? And if they do, doesn’t that make it easier to endure the lack of short-term results?
In other words: do you subscribe to the saying “if they want it badly enough…”?
Loved this. Focus on the process, and that's how the outcomes follow!
Exactly. I couldn’t agree more.
This is a little snippet of the outright winner of Cocodona 250 and what slow burn in progression means in any domain of life.
One has to understand this. Training is quite subjective as everybody's background and many other things vary. It is all about keep showing up because consistency is the name of the game and no ego training. Just take it easy & keep JOY and CURIOSITY in whatever you pursue because if one needs to be their best version, then it can only happen if we stick to it for long term.
All the benefits in life come from compound interest — money, relationships, habits — anything of importance.
Somebody had to break the shackles and Rachel Entrekin did it.
9 years ago, in 2017- Courtney Dauwalter won the inaugural Moab 240 Endurance Run outright, finishing the 238-mile Utah course in 57 hours, 55 minutes, and 13 seconds. She finished over 10 hours ahead of the second-place finisher.
When the field is stacked, you won't be able to witness this kind of performance repetitively. What I am loved about Rachel Entrekin is the way she has run this race from the front. She has shown immense self belief, immense fierceness & fearlessness.
That's how you run races. You got to believe in yourself to the point it seems delusion and it is okay if no other person understands it.
The more I was amazed by Courtney's kick at Chianti Ultra Trail by UTMB is what Rachel did. This has been a long arduous path for her. It will be great to see her competing with international athletes in some of the deepest fields. Keeping that SELF BELIEF alive is quite difficult at times but she kept the fire burning and she totally belong amongst the best of the best and Chianti was a testament to it, now she has cemented her it more so.
I also listened to her podcast on Singletrack & loved the part where she told she is open book. I also believe in putting my training or whatever it is in to the public.
She had been chipping away with consistent progress. It is not an overnight success, she has been competing for almost 12-13 years. Everything is a slow burn and nothing comes easy and it generally takes more time than one thinks but it is all about KEEP SHOWING UP.
Consistency is the name of the game.
This is such a good example of what sustained discipline actually looks like in real life.
From the outside, people often see the breakthrough moment and assume confidence, talent or motivation suddenly appeared. What they usually don’t see is the decade of repetition underneath it.
That’s why I liked your phrase “slow burn in progression.”
Most meaningful growth works like that. Quietly. Gradually. Often invisibly for long periods of time.
What Rachel Entrekin’s story shows is that consistency is rarely glamorous while you’re inside it. It’s just showing up again and again before there’s external proof it’s working.
I also think your point about joy and curiosity matters massively because discipline built only on pressure eventually becomes difficult to sustain. The people who last usually stay connected to something deeper than outcomes alone.
And you’re right — self belief at that level can almost look irrational from the outside before results arrive. But often the people who achieve extraordinary things are simply the ones willing to keep believing for longer than most.
“Consistency is the name of the game” is probably one of the simplest and truest performance lessons there is.