Don't neglect your ceiling

If you are going to do triathlon, you will also have to do core workouts (crunches and some other stuff), so you may as well put something interesting on your ceiling to inspire you while you are lying there.

I put a couple of pictures and a poem up above my workout mat. I just wrote the poem in sharpie on a poster board. It helps me keep going.

Here's the poem:

in celebration of surviving
chuck miller

when senselessness has pounded you around on the ropes
and you're getting too old to hold out for the future
no work and running out of money,
and then you make a try after something that you know you
   won't get
and this long shot comes through on the stretch
in a photo finish of your heart's trepidation
then for a while
even when the chill factor of these prairie winters puts it at
   fifty below
you're warm and have that old feeling
of being a comer, though belated
in the crazy game of life

standing in the winter night
emptying the garbage and looking at the stars
you realize that although the odds are fantastically against you
when that single January shooting star
flung its wad in the maw of night
it was yours
and though the years are edged with crime and squalor
that second wind, or twenty-third
is coming strong
and for a time
perhaps a very short time
one lives as though in a golden envelope of light.