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When an Olympian Stops Keeping Score
I’ve spent most of my life competing. You don’t become an Olympian without developing a rather intimate relationship with winning, losing, and striving to be better.
What I didn’t realize was that decades after my athletic career ended, I was still competing.
Only this time, the competition was interfering with something I loved.
Writing.
There’s something ingrained in the mind, body, and spirit when you’re a competitor. It doesn’t matter what level you competed at or what you competed in. Once you have that competitive spirit, you always have it.
I don’t know if I ever fully realized the…
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