I post this as my own personal motivation.
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The transition for a serious athlete to life after athletics is truly challenging. There’s a lot of struggle and necessary healing that happens. It’s tough to describe to someone who hasn’t experienced a transition like this. But for those who have, they KNOW.
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High level sport and the necessary commitments that go along with it fill so many “needs” for people like me who are driven for more. For over 3 decades, sport filled my need for things like personal challenge, focus, travel, achievement, physical training, hard work and so much more.
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When it’s gone - even if you got to choose when to walk away, even if you have a career and other support systems in place, it’s easy to feel lost. I felt so far away from “Ingrid the athlete” that I’ve felt completely disconnected from the person in these pictures.
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In fact, I’ll see photos or videos of training or competition and I often have to remind myself that I actually did those things. That really was me.
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The transition after I retired has included a few years of what I call my “hibernation period”. During this time, I essentially didn’t train much at all - for over 4 years. I had a few spurts, but nothing truly consistent.
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But as I’ve worked on navigating this new arena, I find myself moving closer again to who I was, and really who I’ve always been - and finally *starting* to understand how that applies now, outside of the athletic arena.
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My goal: to feel as focused and determined and clear headed. To learn from the mistakes and the failures and celebrate small victories. To enjoy the process and try to understand how it fits into the big picture. To always challenge myself for more and truly believe it’s possible. To keep driving forward no matter what. To push the boundaries and to see what I’m truly capable of accomplishing.
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This was life as an athlete. Working on making this just “life”. Oh, and maybe to someday see those abs again
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Hace seis años una persona muy pero que muy bonita llamada @angelicadass me hacía esta foto y me decía cual era mi pantone. Hoy el pantone de Angelica ha dado la vuelta al mundo, casi como yo. He rescatado la foto por mera casualidad que estoy de spring cleaning y no he podido evitar sonreír al acordarme de aquel momento, de aquel año, de aquel viaje. Fin de cita profunda. Edito: aunque no es lo más importante del proyecto Humanae, nuestro pantone según Angelica sale de la nariz. Es la parte más sensible a cambios por frío, sol o calor. #bestpantoneever #humanae #happiness #spring stories #pantonehumano #elpantoneeslavoesbien #workinprogress #lifeinprogress
Today I close the door to the past ... open the door to the future take a deep breath and step on through like a motha** with a smile , to start the next chapter in my life
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