Last year while training for Ironman Louisville I recall thinking, "Man, next year's gonna' be great. I'm going to do a bunch of shorter-faster races. I'm ready to put the hammer down. I still have my speed."
This season I've done a short course duathlon, an Olympic distance triathlon, and a sprint distance triathlon. Furthermore, I have two more sprint distance triathlons coming up before I do the 1/2 Ironman distance events. Well, even as I sit here on the eve of the Del Sol Triathlon (sprint distance) I'm not pumped to "Put the hammer down," but instead I'm looking forward to my longer events and next year's Ironman.
I've posted about "Focus" before. I don't know why I get unsettled. Ahh, whatever. I know the closer it gets to "go time" tomorrow the more pumped I'll be. Maybe thinking about longer stuff is my built in excuse that I'm working on in case things don't go as well as I would like. Who knows?
I'm looking for a top 10 overall result. It will depend on two primary factors...
1. I perform to the best of my ability.
2. Who shows up.
I don't want to be too fired up right now. Being mellow like Jello right now is a good thing. I just don't want to be too relaxed when the gun goes off. Perhaps some prerace Dr. Feelgood is in order, or some jam from VH.
This is all part of the adventure which makes life in multisport interesting.
Well, we'll see how it goes.
PEACE!
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