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title: "On double losses"
description: "Stopping the bleeding, atonement, and the words of god"
author: "Ghaith Ayadi"
site: "Verbatim"
collection: "The mechanics"
url: "https://verbatim.ayadighaith.com/the-mechanics/on-double-losses"
date: 2024-03-31
updated: 2026-09-16
---
# On double losses

Don’t allow losses to snowball.

If I had a bad training day, i should not allow the next day to be bad. If I had a bad training week, the next week should be a great week.

This week is a good example of that. I wrote last week about how I felt so terrible about missing the long run. I was determined to fix it this week. Started off strong but I was feeling low during the week because I didn’t get in any cycle or lift. thankfully, the bike arrived on Thursday. From that night till now, I finished the week feeling absolutely strong

* 3 swims including a record 2050m swim.

* 3 runs totaling 34km

* 2 cycles on the trainer.

I didn’t do a lift but I got in at least 3 sets of split squats which were my focus anyway.

Now I’m feeling very tired but emotionally in the right place. gonna have a couple of days off next week so hopefully I get an emotional lift from that

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ يُؤْتَوْنَ أَجْرَهُم مَّرَّتَيْنِ بِمَا صَبَرُوا۟ وَيَدْرَءُونَ بِٱلْحَسَنَةِ ٱلسَّيِّئَةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَـٰهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ

**They will be given their reward twice for what they patiently endured, and they repel evil with good, and from what We have provided them, they spend.**

**Al-Qasas (28:54) - سورة القصص 28:54**