keep on keepin' on

Another decent few days of training. Since I’m completely exhausted everyday which means that I am out there enough. I sat down and did my final month of training with taper. What a challenging 9 months this has been. Lots of ups and downs…injuries, accomplishments, first times. Never thought I’d bike 90 miles then go to work. Never thought that I’d think sleeping until 5am was late. This year I’ve run 2 marathons, one on a trail in 10” snow and one downtown, both were firsts. I swam across the Potomac just a bit over 8 miles. I did another 70.3 and went into it like it was an Olympic. Thanks to my wife who has repaired many sore legs with some massage. Thanks again to my wife who has to ultra plan her weeks around my training. It needs to be known that when I finish IM that she was instrumental in my success! And get this- 4 years ago I was 233 lbs. Never would I have thought I’d be where am at right now. Training 20 hrs a week and eating everything in sight just to stay above 160lbs. 31 days left, just got to hold it together a little longer. 2 more crazy, crazy, hard weeks of miles and miles….then taper time. So with all that said…

An incident occurred recently that has really made me look at things differently. I followed this story of a child who battled a brain tumor for almost 3 years. Unfortunately she lost her battle last week. Absolutely heart breaking reading her blogs and always knowing that this child was probably not going to win. Beyond all that, take a moment to keep her family in your thoughts. I’m sure they need it right now.

This is an opportunity to look at what we, as athletes have. So we are tired, so we come in 2nd, oh, my IT band hurts…that’s it? That’s what we have to complain about? We are not really a big deal like we want to think.