“commitment”
Its 5am and I am drinking my morning coffee getting ready to go out for a 6 hour bike ride which I will follow with a 1 hour run.
7 hours of training to be completed before end of lunch time because I have a meeting/review I must attend at 15:00.
I’m not bragging…
It’s cold and rainy in Monaco which makes going off for a 6 hour bike ride even more mentally challenging than usual.
I would be lying if I said that not a day goes by (recently) where I don’t ask myself, why am I doing this??
Why am I training to attempt to complete 7 ironman triathlons in 7 days across the 7 emirates??
My body is sore, and tired … I don’t sleep well, not to mention my life is organized entirely around my training.
But enough of me moaning like a total pussy…
Life isn’t always meant to be comfortable and cushy.
Pride lasts longer than pain.
Arthur ZHANG
I would use a phrase in the gym machine to encourage myself if I were in the similar situation: “It’s your training, you’re doing very well, keep going!”
Last night, I drove from Vegas to San Francisco by myself for 11 consecutive hours with only one-time 60-minute break. Everytime I felt like having stop-by, I remind myself of the English Channel Swim Challenge.
Keep climbing…