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Talking Tri-/Duathlon for Ordinary Mortals: A Series
How do you deal with the disappointment of not being able to race in an event you've been looking forward to?
The mental aspects of our relationships with others, in both training and racing, play a role in our multisport journeys.
An important aspect of mind-work is knowing your body.
In triathlon, it's 90 percent mental work, 10 percent perspiration.
In this column let me share some of the lessons I learned about staying with our sport, even when things seem to be going wrong.
In terms of training, there are many ways to approach the offseason. Some multisport athletes take off the winter completely. This is not recommended.
An extra special feature of that day for me was that my children, Jacob, 10, and Lillian 9, were brought by their mom, Linda, to see Daddy race.
On choice of bike. For any of us, at any level, that has to do not with some absolute standard but rather with A) what we are out to achieve in the sport at any given time, and B) just how much money we want to spend on the machine.
So, he felt “Great,” right? Wrong. “I could have beaten my goal by more than five minutes,” he wrote.
When Charlie turned 68, he decided that it was time to take up something new. He turned to triathlon and he became pretty fast at that, too.