Always Something

It's always something. Like thinking you have all this training mumbo-jumbo figured out only to be blindsided by a muscle pull, ankle sprain or upper respiratory infection. Or like thinking you have put (cleverly) al the pieces together for an event, only to see one of the pieces (most of the time an important one) disintegrate. Or like thinking that an expensive software upgrade (with the adjacent expensive hardware) will provide smother, quicker, clearer and less troublesome video? And lastly, how about thinking that your long downtrodden, but rebuilding, college football team is actually making progress and WINNING a game or two?

How about all of the above AT THE SAME TIME?

Such was the life of the RCVman yesterday. A lot of always somethings, causing, creating and confounding an oft challenged and fragile state of perpetual imbalance. Ouch indeed.

But like any credible and self-respecting Ironman, we work through them. Don't we? One foot (challenges, issues, problems) in front of the other. Until we have made it, however worse for wear, to the finish line. Then we take a retrospective look back with our 20/200 shades and find:

That some additional faith and trust goes a long way towards making the journey more enjoyable. Was that a collective duh I just heard? Yuppers, it ain't cardio, neuromuscular, VO2, ftp, or even power-to-weight potential, it's all attitudinal.

Have a little faith that there will come a solution. A tad more trust in your preparation, training, base and support group. And deep commitment to the FACT that the world will not end tomorrow just because your butt hurts, they changed the course on you, the software has bugs or the Huskies bark is bigger than their bite.

Cause you know what? Once the piriformis heals, we get all 112 miles filmed, I figure out a compression/codec work-around and the Huskies win another game, there will be soothing else.

Cause IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING.

From the "You Saw it Here First" Department is the just released, official, Ironman Texas bike course. We will be riding and filming ALL 112 miles, next Sunday, Halloween, Oct. 31. Starting times, aid stations, schwag and other pertinent details will soon follow. You can count on that.