Category: Reflections

Reflections on common themes derived from the sport of triathlon

Failure

“There is no failure except in no longer trying”                                                                  – Elbert Hubbard In 2002 as a college freshman I had two significant goals and I wrote them on a dry erase board next to my bed so that I could see them every morning when I woke up. 1) Graduate with a bachelors in…

Overcoming “The Wall” in Training

It is impossible to stick with something unless you derive more satisfaction out of it than pain and suffering. For a period of time after graduation I joined UB masters swim which met Tues/Thurs mornings at 5:45am and Sat at 6:45am for workouts.  On these days I would crawl out of my warm bed to…

Preface

About a year ago I started this blog thinking it would be a fun way to share my race season; writing race reports as well as posting pictures and results.  Turns out however that the whole writing thing is hard work, time consuming and easily outside my comfort zone, so when the notice came into…