I've been a little taken aback by the mental and training philosophies I've seen in a brief survey of the bloggers out there in the tri community. Maybe I don't realize it, but what i'm doing is pretty extreme. Never having raced, never having run a marathon, swam a mile and having done only a few centuries, and I have the audacity to assume I can finish an Ironman.
Sure why not.
Honestly, I truly believe there is nothing standing between me and this goal but my own willpower and motivation. Sure I won't beat the competition, sure I'll be beat to crap by everything in the way, and will probably exhaust myself far beyond my means or any idea of what I think I'm doing, but thats ok, I can deal, because its in pursuit of something truly meaningful to me... me. I'm fairly content with being selfish and arrogant, however, leaving everything to chance and hoping for the best, not pushing hard enough nor long enough are not in me. I will finish this large son of a bitch, and well, not the best certainly, that comes with time I assume, and who nows how time will treat my fancy.
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