Motivation for Hard Intervals?

[ehirsch83]

I was recently told a quote the other day that has now been playing in my head.

Let me give a little background to how it came to me being told this- Last Sunday I did the group ride up to Spanish River Blvd(it is the turnaround for the 30 mile ride), about 10 of us continued north up to Boynton(so making our whole ride 68 miles). After we hit spanish river we all slowed it down and just spun(these group rides are fast- they are every man for himself, if you can't hang in to bad). So anyways, as we are all spinning and talking one of the guys says you know I almost didn't get out of bed today because I was so sore from yesterdays group ride(Saturday had been a really fast and hard ride). He then went on to say that the only reason he got out of bed was because of something he had been told 6 or 7 years ago.(he was also told this by my boss, she is an elite cyclist)
So anyways, 6 or 7 years ago he was complaining to her about being sore and she asked if he wanted to know how to get rid of the pain, of course he said yes. Now this is the advice that repeats itself in my head now when I am hurting.

You must go out there and build new pain to put on top of the old pain, then and only then will the old pain stop hurting!!

[RoadRaven]

You must go out there and build new pain to put on top of the old pain, then and only then will the old pain stop hurting!!

Now this really appeals to me... funny though, my colleagues at work really don't understand that I get so much satisfaction from something that makes me so uncomfortable.