The best thing about my fitness efforts are that I am responsible for it all. Nobody owes me anything. No one is waiting on something from me. I am not on a team. I am an individual contributor. I am out there living and dying on my own efforts.
Eat shitty? I get shitty results. Skip a workout? I’ll pay for it.
But as close as I come to spiritually, the notion that I am one with my fitness efforts is a beautiful thing.
Related but not, now that I’m training up for trail running season, I found out a few surprising things. One, I’m suddenly re-INVIGORATED with energy about my training. I’m thinking TONS about it. I am breathing the “in training” mindset. Second, I’m suddenly thinking I might try one of those there triathlon things the kids are all talkin’ about. Sounds like it might be something interesting, and hey, I have a new cheapass bike. It might be fun, right?
A sprint can’t be all that bad. What’s that? A dip in the water, a casual bike ride, and then a 5K? Pffft. If my only goal is to finish, how can’t I, short of some kind of horrible mechanical failure?
I dunno. Do you do triathlons? Hmm. I wonder if they do TRAIL triathlons around here. What’s your story?
