Goal: Finish the Ford Ironman Florida Triathlon, November 5, 2011, Panama City, FL
Current Weight: ? I’m on a 3-week “no weigh” plan—I’ll explain later, maybe.
Ironman Goal Weight: A lean, strong, healthy 189
Current Training: I am now beginning the push to prepare for the Utah Half Ironman on August 27th & the Top of Utah Marathon on September 17th. Everything from this point on will be geared to start revving the engine in preparation for November 5th.
Current Injury Status: None.
LAFF: As some of you know, I detest misspeeeelings and cruciphy myself when I make them myself in any dokument or correspondunce. I even hate to misspell in a text message! During my latest Ragnar Relay experience not only did I run with some outstanding runners but I shared lube and blisters with an exsellent group of spellurs! We passed some of the time expressing our disappointment in the por speling by sum of our fellow Ragnarlians on the coarse (imagine 2,400 vehicles with names, slogans, etc. decorating there windows—we didn’t see ‘em all, butt saw many). One of the gems we viewed over and over again was a teem name displayed on a back window we trailed fer many, many miles: “Squirl Bait”. C’mon people, my pen is out of red ink…
THINK: Very Important Triathlete
I remember my kid-like excitement (I was 20, so I guess I was still actually a kid!) when I enjoyed the opportunity of attending the Wimbledon Championships in the mid 80’s. While I was not a tennis player, I had grown up watching the greats with my father and playing a little with him in between all of the football, basketball, and running After all, it was “sport”, and it was “competition”, so I was all in. I think tennis is a great spectator sport.
Back to London…I ate some strawberries and cream and was thrilled to watch stars like John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, and a new German kid on the block named Boris Becker, play tennis on the world’s greatest grass court stage. And, of course, I dreamed like every athlete… “Wouldn’t it be cool to play here?” Everyone’s done it. We imagine scoring a touchdown in the Super Bowl or hitting a home run in the World Series (insert your own dream here). But, even if we couldn’t do that wouldn’t it be cool just to share the court or the field with the pros? Just once? Sure, you can pay thousands to participate in “fantasy camps” with pro athletes, but you aren’t sharing the same stage with the same athletes in the same event. Except in the world of triathlon. When you swim, bike, and run in an Ironman event, you are sharing the water and the road with the world’s best professional triathletes. You also get to share the same finish line with them (albeit hours later J). I think this is pretty cool and it makes the Ironman a very unique event in the world of sport. As a forty-something who went pro in teaching/coaching, I will participate in Florida with the some of the world’s elite triathletes. A VIT, I guess. Pretty awesome…
Back to London…I ate some strawberries and cream and was thrilled to watch stars like John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, and a new German kid on the block named Boris Becker, play tennis on the world’s greatest grass court stage. And, of course, I dreamed like every athlete… “Wouldn’t it be cool to play here?” Everyone’s done it. We imagine scoring a touchdown in the Super Bowl or hitting a home run in the World Series (insert your own dream here). But, even if we couldn’t do that wouldn’t it be cool just to share the court or the field with the pros? Just once? Sure, you can pay thousands to participate in “fantasy camps” with pro athletes, but you aren’t sharing the same stage with the same athletes in the same event. Except in the world of triathlon. When you swim, bike, and run in an Ironman event, you are sharing the water and the road with the world’s best professional triathletes. You also get to share the same finish line with them (albeit hours later J). I think this is pretty cool and it makes the Ironman a very unique event in the world of sport. As a forty-something who went pro in teaching/coaching, I will participate in Florida with the some of the world’s elite triathletes. A VIT, I guess. Pretty awesome…
CRY: The Best Way to Prepare for a Race
My mind is constantly filled with the idea of making each moment and day count. Find something worthwhile to pursue, decide to try something impossible, or make a written plan for whatever “it” is that you’ve always wanted to do but just haven’t completed yet. And then tell someone who loves you about your goal…
My mind is constantly filled with the idea of making each moment and day count. Find something worthwhile to pursue, decide to try something impossible, or make a written plan for whatever “it” is that you’ve always wanted to do but just haven’t completed yet. And then tell someone who loves you about your goal…
There are tears of joy and tears of regret. Take your pick, the choice is yours. A genuinely sad thing happens when we procrastinate and fail to act on our desires and dreams. The following quotes motivate me to seek the tears of the former and not the latter:
“Mr. Meant-To has a friend, his name is Didn’t-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-Have-Been.”
-Marva Collins, educator. b. 1936.
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘it might have been’.”
-John Greenleaf Whittier, writer. 1807-1892.
Checklist time--think for a moment or two...
- What race or event do you want to do?
- What race or event do you need to do?
- Now, go write it down.
- Next, go show someone you love and ask for their support.
- Ok, just one more step to get you moving. It is a great piece of advice from my friend, coach, and inspiration, Greg Peterson (2 time Ironman triathlete). He says “the best way to prepare for a race is to send in your entry fee.”
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