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I'm not an athlete, I told myself.  I was the last chosen for teams pretty much every time.  And more often than not, admittedly, I dropped the ball or didn't run fast enough.  So I lived up to the low expectations of being a teammate. That kept me believing that I was not an athlete.  And so, I never tried to be athletic. Years later, when I was recovering from being sick, I decided I needed to get into shape.  I was motivated by a scuba class when I realized how out of shape I was.  I dragged myself into the weight room, so I wouldn't embarrass myself in class.  I took to the pool for the same reason. And I slowly got into shape.  Which led to a friend asking if I wanted to adventure race.  Why not?  I might as well, I reasoned.  Then, I trained and completed a trail marathon.  And ran quite a few 5k's.  Not an athlete, though. Then, at a conference, someone told me she wanted to write a book, but she "wasn't a writer."  I asked what she was doing.  She wrote every single day.  And she had lots of piece