Perspective

Training for these events is really an exercise in perspective.
For example:

• I think the bike at Wildflower is painfully hard.
• Chris thinks its easy.

• Chris thinks a marathon is hard.
• The guys on the Ironteam do them as part of their training.

• I swam 3000m last night and thought I was a rock star.
• I watched the masters team do the same distance in half the time.

I find it so easy to compare myself to others and feel bad about it. But I guess what I need to remember is something more like this:

• I used to think running 2 miles would kill me.
• Now I run 4 miles to clear my head.

• I used to thinking triathlons were for crazy people.
• Now I think I am crazy.

• I get freaked out by clipless pedals.
• Some of our honorees face cancer every day and never freak out.