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The "Loose Laces" Story

On the weekends, I usually try not to stay in Glyfada. Sometimes I go to country. There, I may invite friends and go out or stay at home.

Usually, in the afternoon I go for a run. Τhere is a 10 km route from my house to the next village. Because of the uphill road on the way back, it takes me 51-53 minutes to run.

I always try to run the route in less than 51 minutes. Nevertheless most of the time I can not do it - either I start too fast (doing first 5KM below 26 minutes) and then get tired or I begin slowly and on the way back it's impossible to go that fast.

However, the last time I run there I started fast, faster than any other time. Reached the 5KM point (the next village) on ~20 minutes and on my way back it took me other ~27 minutes. This is a total of ~47 minutes (!).

Obviously, that was a personal record.

The reason I write all these, is because that one (and only) time that I've made it below 50 minutes, I was running with loosed laces on the right shoe, plus the shoes were not running shoes at all. I noticed the loose lace when I had already started, but I could not do anything since I didn't want to stop the timer.

What I've learned is that, the equiment (non-running shoes) and the conditions (loosed laces) doesn't really matter.

What it does matter is how one truly wants to do something.

Τhe same applies for software.

Nikos Baxevanis collects and shares fine-grained parts from methodologies and tools he uses as a programmer.

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