Triathlon: Life Changing – Life Affirming – Life Fulfilling!
“Oh it’s him again!”
“More swimming and triathlon nonsense”
“I don’t care!”
(Not actual quotes! Just me imagining.)
You may be wondering why I continue to post so much triathlon related content.
I know you are busy people. Why do you constantly want to hear about triathlon, about swimming, about sport, about fitness?
Finding Yourself
I owned a business. I managed employees. I knew stress. I knew challenges. I knew success. During my time owning and managing a successful business with 60+ employees, I stepped outside. I took a breath. I discovered personal challenges that were much more fulfilling than anything that lay on my desk or in my inbox.
I found something outside of the workplace that I could focus on. Something that would really challenge me. Something that would reveal who I really was, what I was made of.
I thought I knew myself. I thought I was tough. I thought I was fit. I thought I was unbreakable. Then I found triathlon. Actually, then I found Ironman.
Who Is Going To Stare Back At You?
It seems absurd, but to truly know yourself, to know who you are when you are stripped bare, you really have to step off your bike, in the baking hot sun, after a gruelling 180k in the saddle, after already swimming 3.8k in the sea, and take a look, a hard look at yourself … prior to a 42k marathon run. Are you ready? Can you do this?
What stares back at you might not be who or what you thought yourself to be!
Further down the road, the real demons await. 10k, 20k, 30k. The physical challenge is tough enough. It will take you to your very edge. Physically, you will drain yourself. That is nothing, however, to your own demons that lie in wait.
“Stop!”
“This is too hard!”
“What are you doing?!”
“What are you trying to prove?!”
“Stop!”
“You’re rubbish!”
“Ow, ow, ow!!”
“Stop”
“STOOOOOOOOPPPPPPP”
A Different Person Emerges
Once you vanquish those demons, overcome these unbelievably difficult physical and mental challenges, collect your medal, you are ready for anything.
Nothing will ever seem quite as difficult again.
“Anything is possible”.
You have taken yourself to new heights, to new depths. You are all powerful. You are ready for whatever life throws at you. For you, as cheesy as it sounds, are an Ironman – and you have all of the power, resilience, determination, enthusiasm, desire, mental toughness and staying power that you could possibly need for anything else you come across in life.
You have the power. You can move mountains. You are the best you can be.
Life Changing, Life Affirming, Life Fulfilling!
This is why I post about triathlon, about Ironman. It is life changing. It is life-fulfilling. It is life-affirming.
I am a believer – 100% – that this is for everyone. If you want to do it, if you believe you can do it, you can!
Enthusiasm, commitment, belief, application.
If you don’t try, if you don’t push yourself, if you don’t take that step outside, how can you ever know?
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