A Born Spirited Champion is a mighty warrior who embraces their spirit,
to assist them in their battles. They strengthen their spiritual connection until they can feel
the spirits flowing within their body and thoughts, strengthening and quickening their mindset.
Whispered fragments impart insight into battle: The spirit champion ceases to fight for their own reasons.
They do so faithfully, trusting in the spirit to point them in the right direction.
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A spirit champion is a deadly melee combatant. The spiritual nature strengthens their minds in ways most warriors ignore. Insight grants them speed and accuracy, they’re contemplative warriors, likely to meditate through darkness to dawn knowing every dark cloud has a silver lining while performing calmly within the battle. Spirit champions rely on the spirits to protect them, through insight and wisdom
as well as direct intervention.
They focus on the mind, and with their focus they can transcend physical limitations.
Nature protects the spirit, providing instinctual insight and the whispers that bypass the normal means of understanding that bleed into the spirit champion’s subconscious mind. Spirit champions meditate as they prefer quiet places, however, they can meditate anywhere as long as they are undisturbed.
They use this time to renew their focus within themselves on the tasks that lie ahead.
The spirited champion mind is at peace and is difficult to disturb.
A skilled champion spirit usually answers, but often does so in cryptic ways meant to improve the spirit champion or reveal to himself something about themselves. A highly skilled spirit champion has such an understanding of their own spirit, and has established such a strong relationship with themself.
They have both the ability to perform at the next level and rise to the challenge.
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Jamie Whitmore was born on May 4th 1976 in Mount Aukum, California.
Personal: Whitmore has always been an athlete. When she was 5 years old, she started swimming, then it was softball and volleyball before she found her niche in track and field in eighth grade. She quickly found success as a distance runner and earned a scholarship to California State University, Northridge where she ran cross country and track. After graduating in 1998, she decided she wanted to be a professional triathlete.
By 2001, she was racing mountain bikes professionally, and one year later she won her first Xterra off-road triathlon. Whitmore went on to become the most successful female athlete in XTERRA history with 37 wins,
six national titles and one world title. In March of 2008, Whitmore learned that the source of the lingering pain in her leg was cancer – a spindle cell sarcoma that had wrapped around her sciatic nerve.
The next year, Whitmore was in and out of the hospital with surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy and infections that left her fighting for her life. After relearning to walk and giving birth to twin boys in 2010, Whitmore won a gold and silver medal at the Paralympic Games Rio 2016. …Daughter of Clyde and Christine Whitmore…
Has twin sons, Christian and Ryder, who were born in January of 2010…Was pregnant with the twins before being a year cancer free…She coaches over 30 athletes for off-road and road triathlons…
Hobbies include mountain biking and riding dirt jumps with her boys!!
Paralympic Experience Paralympian (2016); Two-time medalist (1 gold, 1 silver)
Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, gold (road race), silver (track pursuit)
World Championship Experience Most recent: 2019 – Road – 5th (time trial), 7th (road race);
Track – 4th (scratch), 6th (time trial), 7th (pursuit)
Years of Participation: Road – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019; Track – 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Medals: 20 (11 golds, 3 silver, 6 bronze)
Gold – 2017 (track time trial, track scratch), 2015 (track time trial, road time trial, road race),
2014 (road race, road time trial, pursuit, track time trial), 2013 (road time trial, road race)
Silver – 2016 (track scratch), 2015 (track scratch, track pursuit)
Bronze – 2018 (track time trial, track pursuit, track scratch, road race, road time trial),
(track time trial.)
As an athlete, Whitmore went to California State University, Northridge on a scholarship and completed a criminology degree in 1998. The professional triathlete turned Paralympic gold medalist has never met a challenge she couldn’t overcome and never slowed or backed down from anything.
Whether it was an XTERRA mountain bike race—or cancer.
In 2007, Whitmore was considered one of the most successful athletes in America. She was a six-time USA champion for XTERRA racing, a two-time European tour champion, and held a world title. Everything changed during a triathlon that seemed like so many others she had conquered. Whitmore—31 at the time—had just finished the swimming portion of the competition when she got on her bike and felt “something off”
in her left leg.
She rode through it, but when she started the running portion of the race, she told Reader’s Digest,
“I was shuffling. It was hard to pick my legs up. I knew something wasn’t right. ”Whitmore cut back on running for a while following the race, but she kept swimming and biking, assuming the leg pain was the result of a muscle that she’d worked too hard. But the pain kept getting worse, culminating into the moment when she got on her bike and immediately experienced pain that was so intense, she started bawling.
I knew something wasn’t right.” She avoided running for a while, focusing on her other two passions,
swimming and biking. “I didn’t have any symptoms as long as I wasn’t running. I took a break from it, but every time I tried again the muscles were super tight and I had a lot of pain in my hamstring.”
Assuming she’d simply pushed herself too hard in the last race, Whitmore shrugged off the pain. It wasn’t until a sleepless night at a sports camp in Arizona that Whitmore said she knew something was seriously wrong.
“I couldn’t sleep, and I was having a ton of sciatic nerve pain. I usually had it when I drove a long time or sat too long—it was more annoying than anything.”
The next morning she decided to try to go for a jog, and the pain immediately became excruciating.
She opted instead to ride her bike, hoping that would ease the pain. “Once I got on my bike I was in so much pain I was bawling. I flew back home to go to a nearby hospital. I knew whatever was going on was bad if I couldn’t ride my bike.” Whitmore never thought her leg pain could be cancer—she thought she had pulled a muscle. As her pain continued to increase, so did other symptoms. “I wasn’t able to use the restroom without pain; I was bed-ridden, unable to walk. No one could tell me exactly what was wrong.”
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After a friend recommended she go to the University of California, San Francisco, Whitmore took his advice and was quickly admitted. “I met with an oncologist, and he said they would do a needle biopsy.”
When the obstetrician tried to take a sample of the tumor with an exploratory laparoscopic (small-incision) procedure, they found that the tumor was essentially encompassing all her major organs,
as well as her sciatic nerve.
When she heard the diagnosis for the first time, Whitmore says time stood still. “I couldn’t breathe.
They were talking about treatment and I just started crying and saying ‘I don’t want to die which made me more determined.” What doctors found during surgery shocked them all: Whitmore had spindle cell sarcoma,
a soft tissue tumor that can start in the bone,
The cancer was extremely rare, making up only two-to-five percent of all bone cancers.
“They couldn’t cut it out for fear of bursting the tumor. It was near every organ I needed to live.”
Spindle cell sarcoma is extremely rare, comprising only 2 to 5 percent of all primary bone cancers. Chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation are typical treatments for the disease.
There are several types of cancer that have minor symptoms like Whitmore’s or none at all.
Doctors enlisted the help of several specialists to remove the tumor. “It was pressing against my rectum and bladder and had choked the blood supply to my sciatic nerve. I had no idea that when I woke up I wouldn’t have the use of my leg anymore from the knee down.
When they told me I would need to bandage my foot to walk, I thought, this can’t be happening.
I’m a professional athlete.” Whitmore now had drop foot and had to learn to walk again with the help of a physical therapist. She started radiation therapy, but four days in, doctors had more bad news: A scan had shown the cancer was back. “This time it was even more aggressive. They went in and took the rest of my sciatic nerve, a sacral nerve, and removed some cancer from my tailbone.”
Whitmore developed sepsis from the surgery and endured a grueling two-month recovery.
“My scans were coming back clear of cancer, however, now I had all of these other complications.”
When she began to feel sick again, Whitmore was certain her cancer was back.
Instead, doctors gave her more unexpected news: She was pregnant—with twins.
“That was a whole other freak-out,” Whitmore recalls.
Today, Whitmore is a mother of two sons and cancer-free. She’s competing again, and has won a gold medal in the Paralympics, nine world titles, and has set two world records. She travels as a motivational speaker when she’s not spending time with her sons. Whitmore has some words of advice for others with limitations:
“Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do. You have to find out for yourself. Some doctors told me I would never ride anything more than a stationary bike. And yet I rode my mountain bike 104 miles climbing from 9,000 feet to 14,000 feet. People with two good legs have fallen short of that task!
You just can’t give up.”
Bottomline: Whitmore’s multiple surgeries were complicated; all-in-all, her doctors had to remove
all of her sciatic nerve, sacral nerve, and part of her tail bone. When she woke up from her first surgery,
she couldn’t use her leg from the knee down. She had complete drop foot, meaning an inability
to lift the front part of the foot due to nerve damage.
Here are 30 cancer signs you don’t want to ignore.
“Doctors told me I’d never run again, my pro career was over, and I’d probably never ride anything again.
Other than a stationary bike,” Whitmore told Self.com. How wrong they were.
After multiple surgeries, radiation, her cancer returning once, and a bad sepsis infection,
Whitmore finally beat her sarcoma. She defied her odds, taught herself to walk again, gave birth to twin boys,
and was back on her bike competing within three years, gold medals and setting world records once again.
“Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do,” Whitmore advises others facing limitations. “You have to find out for yourself.” Whitmore’s positive attitude, determination, and appreciation is what helped her get to where she is today: 10 years cancer free, and accomplishing more than her doctors ever thought possible. When it comes to living with cancer, there’s expert-backed proof that attitude makes all the difference.
Zig Ziglar teaches people all over the world the fundamentals of sales and success. Here he tells a story of a woman with a negative attitude who hated her job, shifted her attitude and changed her life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=QA4gwXauNEU
Here are 13 more motivational quotes from Olympic coaches.
Characteristics of the champion.
• Strives to find out how great he or she can be
• Talks soft, plays big
• Loves the battle more than the victory
• Hates to lose, but is not afraid to lose
• Goes through the fire to reach their goals
• Always competes with purpose and passion
• Learns lessons from losses
• Lives in the present moment
• Focuses on continuous daily improvement
• Does not base his or her self worth on the scoreboard
How do YOU define “champion”?
Maelle’s Champion Spirit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXZFXVg__vU