I wrote a blog yesterday about how I LOVE racing – I do, more than anything. Then last night I lay in bed thinking about everything I, as a triathlete, fit into my daily routine and I know this applies to most of you – no matter what your end goal is: finishing an Ironman, breaking a specific hour mark in the Ironman distance, completing your first triathlon – whatever it may be. Most of us get up at ungodly hours when the majority of the population is still in ‘lala land’. We fit in that early training session, get kids ready for school, give the ‘better half’ their share of love, fight traffic, work all day, fight traffic, do homework with kids, make dinner, clean around house, try make time for the ‘better half’, then often work again and then try get 6-7 hours sleep before it all starts again. Then you get some person that has no concept of training asking how many hours a week you train – you answer proudly: “15 hours a week”. Their response is a blaze – “That’s decent” without them having even the faintest idea of what that would do to their ‘normal’ week. If you are anywhere close to 15 hour weeks you will know what I mean. That time may go up or down depending on what you training for and who is helping you with your training. If it is Lucie Zelenkova and she has a specific target in mind for you then prepare yourself for not only more hours but harder hours – much harder hours than what you ever thought were possible. J. Thanks Lucie – I mean this in the best possible way!
The point I am making here is that, no matter what times you are achieving, you are putting in HUGE amounts of effort and maybe sometimes you should think of yourself as a “PRO”. Maybe just the sound of that will make you feel good.
Definition of ‘professional’: engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation. You are a person making ends meet from a family, friends, sport and work perspective. That makes you a PRO!! Go ahead – you deserve it. We all need to appreciate what we give up for this sport and how we manage to ‘find’ time where it would be so much easier to find an excuse instead or to simply just not participate. We chose to do this because we love it for one or other reason: racing, social, health, adrenalin, charity etc. Take a deep breath and pat yourself on the back for being AMAZING and for choosing this life. Also don’t forget that with every hour you put in you take away from somewhere or someone else. It is the ‘someone else’ that sometimes needs a THANK YOU or just a hug or a bunch of flowers, or whatever it is that makes them feel wanted and appreciated. Now go out there on your next training session and know that you are doing something that 99.9% of the population cannot or chose not to do. Keep the passion!
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2/1/2017 01:59:44 pm
I am happy that there are blogs like this that talks about the racing activities and I know that there are some people who loves to compete with one another and that passion will never go wrong if there is that light that is keep on burning just to keep that dream alive
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