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Changing the Metric

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 16/09/18 18:00
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Next week is the big race, the one I’ve been training for since November last year. 

I’d set a few targets of where I would like to be and then set about throughout the year trying to hit those targets, those metrics.

One of the metrics was weight.

To complete this thing that I will be doing I will need to climb some big hills and when climbing hills as a cyclist it’s better to be light.

I set an aspirational target of 79kg (12 stone 7lb)

That would be a stone lighter than when I raced the Outlaw Half in 2013 and got my best time.

It would be 7lb (3kg) lighter than when I did the Ironman, and I never thought I would get back to that again. With the way things looked at the start of the summer there was no chance of me getting there.

At the end of June, I was 13 stone 8lb.

So, I changed the metric.

I decided to measure my calories in and calories out while adding the calories that I did for training.

The results, for me, were astonishing and at last Saturdays weigh in I was 77kg and being told by my coach Simon that I was too light and needed to stop losing weight! That never happens to me.

At least for the moment that change of metric has worked and although Alison tells me that I will soon return back to being a Teletubby over the winter when I start to hibernate that alteration of the metric has been very successful.

On reflection though it’s possible to change the metric in many different things.

For you (probably), for most people, money is the metric for success.

Imagine it wasn’t, imagine you changed the metric and made it time. Time to do the things you wanted and time to recover.

For many (including historically me) the metric for health has been achievement in some sort of crazy challenge like running a marathon, riding up big hills or swimming a lake. Imagine your metric for health was something different. Imagine you redefine your metric for health.

This is all part of the story that we tell ourselves and we have complete control over the story that we tell.

We just need a little bit of space to decide what we want that story to be.

 

Blog post number: 1766

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