Rusty Chain
As I look at my rusty chain on my road bike and prepare it for a 50 mile bike ride for this weekend with a group of Tri club members. For some reason I thought of all the things I have neglected over the past year training for my IronMan race.
Family? Playing with my child? Sleeping in? Sleeping at all? Friends? Practicing my martial arts?
Some how I realized at that point I need to slow down and take some time and enjoy the things I have surely missed along the way.
So for the next month or 2 it will all be about that.
I stayed in late on Saturday, over-slept, woke up when I felt like it. I finally brought down the mighty tree house that has been unstable for the past 5 years due to neglect. I actually promised my little girl I would build her a new one by her birthday. Yeah, that was in August.
So , eventhough I have the Chicago marathon in 5 weeks, I think I will just try to do the best I can that day. Not really a "A" race for me. When I ran it in 2005, I told myself, in 2006 would actually going to be my debutante IronMan race for me. Yeah I know kinda of silly, I just wanted to run the race as a an IronMan and wear my jersey to tell everybody what I did this summer. In 2005 I saw some IronMan Wisconsin racers running the marathon, they had their shirts on and it was cool just seeing them. I thought to myself next time next year I will be one of them. So mission accomplished, leave the watch at home, don't worry about how many mile I have to do today, an let the fun begin leading up to the Chicago Marathon and due the things I have missed along the way.
A friend of mine Doug, shot this at the IMWI race, Frank Farrar, a true 77 year old Ironman stud to swim 2.4 miles in a speedo, who is going to Kona. That is badass.
As I look at my rusty chain on my road bike and prepare it for a 50 mile bike ride for this weekend with a group of Tri club members. For some reason I thought of all the things I have neglected over the past year training for my IronMan race.
Family? Playing with my child? Sleeping in? Sleeping at all? Friends? Practicing my martial arts?
Some how I realized at that point I need to slow down and take some time and enjoy the things I have surely missed along the way.
So for the next month or 2 it will all be about that.
I stayed in late on Saturday, over-slept, woke up when I felt like it. I finally brought down the mighty tree house that has been unstable for the past 5 years due to neglect. I actually promised my little girl I would build her a new one by her birthday. Yeah, that was in August.
So , eventhough I have the Chicago marathon in 5 weeks, I think I will just try to do the best I can that day. Not really a "A" race for me. When I ran it in 2005, I told myself, in 2006 would actually going to be my debutante IronMan race for me. Yeah I know kinda of silly, I just wanted to run the race as a an IronMan and wear my jersey to tell everybody what I did this summer. In 2005 I saw some IronMan Wisconsin racers running the marathon, they had their shirts on and it was cool just seeing them. I thought to myself next time next year I will be one of them. So mission accomplished, leave the watch at home, don't worry about how many mile I have to do today, an let the fun begin leading up to the Chicago Marathon and due the things I have missed along the way.
A friend of mine Doug, shot this at the IMWI race, Frank Farrar, a true 77 year old Ironman stud to swim 2.4 miles in a speedo, who is going to Kona. That is badass.
posted by RunBubbaRun at 3:20 AM
4 Comments:
Ironman will do that to a person. My yougest daughter is 13. I'm waiting to attempt my next Ironman. I tried this year and dropped out. Things just got to crazy. My life was out of balance and I didn't like it. My Tri-Friends think I'm a loser now. But hey, two of them are going thru divorce. Good luck to you.
I TOTALLY hear ya on this. Take this time to relax, and enjoy the time with your little one! Ride and run for FUN, and don't worry about PRs....wear that IM shirt with pride, baby! :) I want to make sure I recover right, so I'm really taking it easy now and will hopefully be able to bounce back strong after I rest and take it easy.
I'm getting to exactly this point too - how funny! Slowly, I'm realizing the merit of non-Ironman activities. And on the treehouse, don't feel too bad; this teacher can assure you that kids are resilient. :)
See you in Chicago! I am thinking this race has to come off my A list too. Apparently being 24 doesn't give me the invincibility I thought and my body is requesting a small break before JFK :)
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