Triathlon Training and Six Life Lessons Learned
November 14th, 2008
I just wrote a guest post for Leo Babauta of Zen Habits discussing some of the life lessons that I learned (or re-learned) during a couple of months of triathlon training as I prepared for the Miami Man:
Six Life Lessons Learned from Triathlon Training
Highlights include:
- Get started (NOW!)
- You have to do the miles
- Some days it’s going to rain
- Put your head down and take it one step at a time
- Find sources of inspiration
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What is one thing you have always wanted to do in your life but have not done yet?
November 2nd, 2008
I have many things that I would still like to do and accomplish! And I assume you do too. Perhaps you would like to change the world, launch a new project, or do something as (seemingly) simple as attending a conference and vowing to make some new connections…
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This week I am heading to Miami to compete in the Miami Man International Distance Triathlon (swim .6 mile, bike 24 miles, and run 10k) on November 9th as part of my commitment to Train for Humanity.
Not many people actually know this about me, but I have wanted to do a triathlon ever since I watched Julie Moss (see video below- watch it!) collapse on T.V. at the Hawaii IronMan triathlon and then crawl across the finish line in 1982. Yikes that’s over 20 years ago…
While certainly not IronMan distance, the Olympic distance tri should give me a good feel for the event. Really, I would like to make it to, and compete in, the Hawaii IronMan event someday, but I am not sure that my knees necessarily agree with me.
