I’m like Steph Curry. Really.

Apparently in the offseason, Steph Curry’s focus on perfection reached new levels.

“Making shots in workouts is no longer good enough,” Payne told NBA.com “We’ve established he’s going to make a lot of shots in workouts. He consistently does that. So for us, we’ve utilized technology to be even more precise.” If the ball failed to drop through the middle of the rim, Curry and Payne simply counted that attempt as a missed shot.

You don’t have to be a basketball guru (I’m not, though I sure fell in love with the Warriors and Steph Curry during my years in the Bay area) to be fascinated by what’s going on here. If Curry doesn’t swish, it counts as a missed shot. For reference, “a swish in basketball is a scored basket that passes through the net without touching the hoop, backboard, or rim”.

That’s a mind-boggling, absurd pursuit of perfection. I smiled reading about it.

I recently ran a sub-3-hour marathon. I wrote about it here.

A sub-three marathon is pretty special, but I am not Kipchoge. Thousands of amateur runners have done it, many much faster.

Three weeks after the race I still feel high and proud. In my marathon story, I wrote about how I got to my result. I noted the importance of consistency, and how I wasn’t focusing on the outcome. In the end, all the excitement aside, my takeaways are not eye-opening. Much has been said about the role of consistency in pursuing anything. I also talked about the specifics of my training…