I signed up for Canada the same day I didn't finish Coeur d'Alene. It was a brash, emotional decision coming from a place of embarrassment, disappointment, sadness, and regret. If those were my motivations for doing this race than training is going to suck and I don't want to spend my summer doing it.
So, I just put away all my tri stuff. I'm taking a week off. Running if I want to, doing projects, resting my tired mind and heart, doing the self love and coming back into me, coming into a good decision making place. After a week, I'll decide if I want to do Ironman Canada.
The Epic Continues... This is the blog I started when I signed up and began training for Ironman Coeur d'Alene, my first Ironman triathlon (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run). I trained for 10 months. On June 26 20011 I went to Idaho to do it, something went wrong in the cold water, I didn't make the swim cut off and was pulled from the race. Huge bummer. In a fog of disappointment I signed up for Ironman Canada on Aug 28 to get er done.
strong decision, friendo. just remember - you're a badass.
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