if you want to get a higher placing:
get faster
train harder
beat someone who might have placed ahead of you
be prepared to fail
some people on here need to learn to lose gracefully i think.
and remember you don’t have the ability to control your competitor’s performance, only your own.
Find a fitter you trust.
Ask his advice.
Take his advice.
Buy a bike.
Wear a helmet.
Have fun.
Wow, who kidnapped fulla??? 
Excellent advice!
well i thought it was timely given all of the penis envy (speed jealousy?) being displayed on here (re steve larsen as ager threads).
also i think it is a bit silly to focus on a placing unless you are one of the very top guys. what you want to do is maximise YOUR performance. if you did everything you could yet still ‘lost’, you’ve still won in my view.
Would the real fulla come back please. I kinda preferred him.
all the steve larsen haters can fuck off. k?
Do this stuff long enough and you pretty much come to realization that your personal satisfaction has got to be effort, not results, based.
Your effort, in training and racing, is totally under your control…your race results are not.
Until you can make the switch, you are handing your satisfaction, and dare I say happiness, over to people and things you have no power to affect.
G
I like those thoughts and I think they apply to more than just multisport.
OK mate, got my bike fixed, my entry to the Auckland half marathon sorted out, nine weeks to go. Time to knuckle down to the program, lose 7kg, focus on the taupo half IM. Running focus first, then biking.
Are you set to go?
PS. Agree on the sentiments on Steve Larsen. What the…? is that all about.
i am tossing up whether or not to enter the ‘legend’ run. it costs $95!
Do this stuff long enough and you pretty much come to realization that your personal satisfaction has got to be effort, not results, based.
Your effort, in training and racing, is totally under your control…your race results are not.
Until you can make the switch, you are handing your satisfaction, and dare I say happiness, over to people and things you have no power to affect.
G
More excellent advice!!!
so true. soooo true.
I am always angry when I come in top 10 but not top 3 in AG. I am not angry at those who beat me. I am angry at myself for not being faster. It means I must work harder and smarter.
I’m a “Steve Larsen hater” but loved your post
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Did you get past US Customs and Immigration, yet?
I always thought that “being competitive” was a mindset on how you approached a race and responded to those who challenge you.
Yes, they stopped me because I hadn’t checked the box that said that I was never a member of the Nazi party. Then they confiscated my bananas.
‘Then they confiscated my bananas’
Metaphorically speaking, of course ; ) Hey, you should stop by and see me.