I'm currently finishing up Chris McCormack's book "I'm Here to Win". I've had it for a while and quit reading it because I didn't relate that much to the dueling and tactics he was talking about. Yet I picked it up and started reading again and liked what he said about pain.
He knew pain would show up and when it came, he greated it like an old friend and kept going.
I like triathlon but the start of a race is my time of acceptance. I know that at some point I will suffer and I accept it.
My race for 2013 will be LeadmanTri 250. I'm not worried about the race based on how hard it may be, I just know that I want to race faster than I've done in the past and I know that it will be painful.
I know I can do IM distance being undertrained and if I go slow enough, I can avoid a lot of pain, but I don't want to go slow. That means training that hurts and racing that hurts more.
I accept. I look forward to quite a few meetings with pain this year, and will treat the relationship with respect and determination.
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