Lime Endurance Deck
A long-haul story with pacing: start, grind, wall, finish.
Turns your AI into an endurance-story deck builder — structures a long-haul effort as paced phases with splits, low points, and a finish, in a lime-on-charcoal visual system.
Install it in 3 steps
No sign-up. No CLI tools. Pick your AI, copy one line, paste it over.
Prefer doing it yourself? Buy the skill ($4.99), download the ZIP from your checkout confirmation, unzip it into the directory shown above, restart your AI session — same result. Already bought it? Your AI assistant can download it for you.
What’s inside
One SKILL.md (the playbook) + one starter template. A preview:
Lime Endurance Deck
When to use
- You finished (or are fundraising for) a race, trek, season, or endurance challenge and need to tell the whole arc, not just the finish photo
- A long project — a build, a campaign, a turnaround — survived a hard middle and the audience needs to feel the pacing, not just the outcome
- A charity or sponsored challenge needs a deck that turns "we went far" into "here is what each phase cost and proved"
- A coach or team needs a season review that shows where the wall hit and what changed after it
- A keynote or school talk is about persistence, and the story needs structure — start, grind, wall, breakthrough, finish — instead of platitudes
Workflow
- Map the effort into phases (input: your timeline → output: 5-phase arc)
Divide the effort into exactly five phases: Start (why you began, and what "ready" looked like), Grind (the long middle where progress was slow), Wall (the point it nearly broke — injury, budget, morale, weather), Breakthrough (what changed: a decision, help, a second wind), Finish (what crossing the line actually meant). If you can't name a Wall, the story isn't an endurance story — it's a victory lap, and a different deck will serve it better. Write one sentence per phase before touching any slide. - Attach a split to every phase (input: logs, records, memories → output: phase splits)
Every phase gets at least one concrete "split" — a measurable marker of that phase: distance covered, time taken, money raised, users reached, workouts completed, or a dated journal quote. The split is what makes the deck an endurance deck instead of a motivational poster. Where a phase has no number, use a dated observation ("Day 14: first night I slept through without checking the dashboard") — dated and specific beats vague and grand. Never invent a split; a phase with an honest "no data recorded" is fine. - Build the pacing slides (input: phases + splits → output: one slide per phase)
One slide per phase, same layout every time: phase name in lime, the split in the largest type on the slide, one short paragraph of what happened, one line of what it felt like. The visual system is lime on charcoal: lime for the phase markers and the splits, charcoal for everything else, white for body text. Pacing matters on the slide as in the story — the Grind slide should look long and spare (lots of empty charcoal), the Wall slide should look stark (one short line, big empty space), the Breakthrough slide can finally be dense. Let the layout enact the pacing.
Template preview
Lime Endurance Deck — Template
Five phases, one slide each. Lime = phase markers + splits. Charcoal = ground. White = body text.
Title slide
Effort: {race / season / project / challenge} Status: {finished on {date} / in progress — currently at {phase}} One line: {why you began, in one sentence}
Phase slides (repeat × 5)
{START / GRIND / WALL / BREAKTHROUGH / FINISH}
- Split (largest type on the slide): {distance / time / money / count + date range}
- What happened: {2–3 sentences — specific, dated, no platitudes}
- Felt like: {one honest line}
