Yo, what's good?

This is Rich, and you're listening to The Mental Wealth Show, a podcast about health, healing, and high performance.

And this episode is part two of keep doing the work anyway.

And in the last episode, I talked about my experience at the World Masters Indoor Track and Fuel Championships,

setting a new personal best in the triple jump, but not quite having the performance that I wanted in the long jump,

despite how much I focused on that leading up to the indoor championships.

And one of the key takeaways was that I have to keep doing the work anyway.

I started my outdoor season.

Unfortunately, I got injured in my first meet on the last jump.

But my point was that I may not have the big PR at my next meet,

which at the time would have been my first meet of the outdoor season, where I got injured and did not have that big PR jump. Or I may not even have it this season.

And being injured, now I'm focused on recovery. And that was something I wasn't even thinking about

with the last episode is something like a barrier like this that might come up and get in the way.

But still, it remains that I have to keep doing the

work. And right now, the work is resolving this SOAS deep core slash hip strain situation that I

created for myself. And that's where all my energy is going right now with the hope that I'm

going to be back in time for the U.S. outdoor nationals in the middle

of July in Huntsville, Alabama. And it's possible I may be healed up and can come back

sooner. As of the time that I'm recording this episode, my next competition is supposed to be

on June 21st in Oakland. Not sure if that's going to actually happen based off

of how I feel now. And I'm not going to push it. And this is a big difference in my attitude and

my mindset from earlier track and field seasons until now where in the past, I would have wanted

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