Fight The Good Fight

What do you do when something's in your blood....and yet you wish it weren't?

This is the planning season for 2013. Not just for racing, but for work, family vacations....everything. When I was a kid, I couldn't see past tomorrow....so if you'd told me that I'd be planning a year or more in advance when I was an adult, I would have thought you and my older self were nuts. But...here we are.

The fact is, I can get into Ironman Texas in May if I want to. The registration is open....I have the time to get out there and race....the weekend is open....so?

Here are the reasons for NOT doing it..
1. I hate the Ironman bike ride. It bores me to tears to be out there for 6-7 hours...drinking piss warm Perform and trying to stay positive about why I'm doing this.
2. Most of my training would be done during weather that is far from certain here in NM. The weather in The Woodlands is warm and humid already in May.....in March and April in Abq, we could get anything....except humid....there will be no humid.
3. I'm not great in the heat. Nuff said.
4. It's a long way from home and it's expensive
5. I'd miss Michi and the kids as always
6. I've already done a bunch of slow Ironman races....do I really need another one on my resume?
7. It's a non wetsuit swim in dirty lake water (which honestly doesn't bother me. I've gone 2.4 miles in the Ohio river without a wetsuit twice and it's not a big deal)
8. The chances of a breakthrough performance on that course in that weather are slim.

Ok...so what are the reasons FOR doing it?
1. I'd be an Ironman again....

WTF kind of hold does this have on me?