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Re: How to keep Ironman from consuming your life [Stafford Brown]
MadTownTRI wrote:


Somehow going further and further and further always seemed to interest me more than going faster..... like there's more glory or something.


I got caught up in this with running. Going to 50K, 12 hour, 100K, and 24 hour stuff. I've even won a 24 hour, and a 50K. The interesting part is that the "more glory" is BS. There's fewer folks in them, and sometimes award ceremonies are hours away and attended by a handful of stragglers. And all you want, is to go home and go to bed. The crowds are small. You often spend hours running alone, and the finish, even for the winners, is often just the RD and a couple volunteers, and if your lucky, a family member who's bored to freaking tears. The courses are so different, that there's really no PR's or bragging, like there is in short fast stuff. And non runners of course don't care, and don't know the difference between a 5K marathon and a 24 hour marathon... it's all stupid to them. But most of all, I know how to slog along for hours and hours and hours at a time, walk when I no longer feel like slogging, and then slog some more every now and then. and I don't have to prove that I can anymore. Even with some small successes, I got nothing out of it, like I do winning my age group at a local short tri, or 5K, surrounded by friends and "rivals". I've even won two small local sprint tris, and comparatively, I can vouch that the thrill is out of this world! It's kind if interesting now, because I still follow friends that are still doing those long ass events. Spending entire weekends training, and then slogging more weekends away racing. Nothing against them, but I look back at my time doing it, and think what a waste.

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Last edited by: Dean T: Feb 23, 19 7:26

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