ironman

There are mental demons we fight and mental angels that we all carry around; it’s how we deal with them that will determine if we can finish this thing called the Ironman, this thing called life.

Becoming an Ironman is like putting an invisible self-confidence charm in your pocket.

If you’re not too myopically focused on your training and equipment, then the Ironman just may teach you what you honestly value in your life.

It is a comforting moment when we suddenly realize that our commitment to race, to participate in something so important to us-our dream-will be actualized. We have made it to the starting line. In this moment, the probability that we will do the event reaches 100 percent. The hundreds of things that can go wrong leading up to an Ironman have been cleverly averted, and the thousands of things required to get to the start are all now officially history.