Focus – Nothing Else Matters
“Nothing else matters.” - Metallica This quote is written across the bottom of my triathlon “Vision Sheet” – my written statement of what I want to accomplish this year in the sport of triathlon and that I have pasted to my bathroom mirror so that I see it every single day. My written statement is my dream I will realize if my hundreds of hours of training and single-minded focus converge with perfect race day conditions and perfect race execution on June 27th, 2010 at Ironman Couer d’Alene in Idaho. Whenever I sit down and think about what it takes to...
Read MoreMy Road Back to Kona: On Deck for 2010
When I raced at the Ironman World Championship in Kona in 2002, I suffered like a dog. I left with no immediate desire to come back. Just a few weeks prior to the race, I had broken the 9-hour mark in an Ironman for the first time at the inaugural Blue Devil Triathlon in Durham, NC. I put everything I had into that race and it left my physically, mentally and emotionally drained. At the time, Kona was a simply line item on my bucket list. Something I wanted to do just so I could “check the box” and say that I had race at Kona. My motivation was low and my body, after...
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