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Four weeks away from better

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 29/08/19 18:00

 

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I think most of us are just four weeks away from being better at whatever it is that we choose to be better at.

There is tonnes of material about happiness and habit forming and changing routines and you can chase that through google for as long as you like. But what I am taking about is about being at the bottoms of the pit that we can’t get out of and in truth it takes four weeks.

I know this, because I have a watched people do it and then I have tried to apply the inspiration that I have gained from them to me when I am at the bottom.

Last Saturday Callum and I got up a little bit early, we drove down to the Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham. That venue would have been the scene of some of my “athletic” triumphs in the past and maybe even in the future.

This time I was going to spectate, to watch, to gain inspiration.

Louis Dunne had been asked to compete for the Huub Race Team.

Louis is 16 and the other three members of the team were grown men and semi-professional or professional athletes.

Worth remembering here for those who don’t know reading this that Louis is the son of Tim.

Louis has been working over the summer with Huub in Derby because Dean who owned Huub, knew Tim.

But back to four weeks because this blog is about four weeks.

I spoke to Louis the day that his dad died on the telephone from Majorca, but it took 10 days before I could stand in front of him because I was on holiday.

We talked about going forwards or going backwards and almost four days to the day that Tim died, Louis stood up at his dad’s funeral and said that he was going to ride 4,900 miles that year as his dad was 49 when he died.

Louis was 13.

He completed his 4,900 miles in June the following year and on Saturday he rode the fastest bike split for the Huub Race Team at the National Triathlon Relays in Nottingham.

The Huub Race Team finished 3rd out of 232 teams with a 16-year-old in the team.

It just turned out that the 16-year-old was their fastest cyclist.

In four weeks from the death of his dad Louis Dunne turned pain and hurt into a fire in his stomach.

I watched that and returned to it regularly when I am winging and moaning and b*****g about how difficult this or that is in my life.

Louis’ inspiration (and other peoples too) took me through La Marotte the following year when my orthopaedic surgeon told me that I should be recovering from knee surgery instead.

The inspiration carried on through the Haute Route in Italy the following year and will take me through again this year, two years before I am supposed to be having a knee replacement (which is now never going to happen).

When I was diagnosed with my arthritic knee it was Tim who pulled me through the four weeks.

In his four weeks I tried to help Louis and then he has helped me in so many other four week periods since.

Finding someone as an inspiration, refraining the story and changing the rules is all it takes to move forwards a day at a time.

It sounds easy when you write it in a blog, but it is horribly difficult, but not impossible.

We all give away the opportunities to take a minute and look at ourselves to see what could be better, four weeks from now to make it easier and nicer and happier.

We check other people’s status or we watch the television or we drink or we tell ourselves that we must make money and we must give up the time to look after ourselves and put something in the bank balance so we can buy things.

This weekend was brilliant and it was basically free and it was a part of my next four weeks.

 

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