Less than six months...

It's officially less than 6 months from race day. I started base 2 yesterday and the heat is on.  I dropped the ball over New Years weekend.  I got really anxious about it.  I am realizing how important this Ironman goal is to me.  I’m back in the game though, and terrified enough not to drop the ball again anytime soon.
 I live a really travelly lifestyle, am single, and have no kids.  It would be harder to spend all this time training if I had a regular job, a partner or a family.  This race is a celebration of the life I have created for myself.  I have worked hard to get to see the world the way I do, to get to work for an awesome company, to have my own business, to have so much independence in my life.  Someday I may have things like a family or less travel but now is a time I can spend on me, and that’s super exciting.  Being in a me time has easy and hard parts of course.  I can’t blame my shortcomings on others as easily.  It’s a daily study of my own integrity.  And it is wonderful to have big goals like Ironman training threading my days together.  Touching each day, it’s my consistency that some get from a partner, kids, 9-5 jobs etc.
 So all the sudden the goal of Ironman is bigger.  It’s a celebration of my lifestyle, a celebration of my health, and a firm consistency each day, and an opportunity to see my best.