Tomorrow I am participating in a triathlon.
And I am totally unprepared.
It is a pretty easy and short race, with each leg of the race being a pretty short (300m swim/10 mile bike/2 mile run), but I still, normally I would have more trained for the event and set specific goals for the race and each leg.
But while I have continue to run regularly, I have only gotten in the water to train once and haven’t been on my bike at all. ????
Honestly, it was the “there will be time. I will start tomorrow” thing. Well, now the race really is tomorrow. Yikes!
If I am honest, I just didn’t put my training high on my priority list, because I was busy doing other things, like being a mom, building a business, and focusing my workout and physical activity time on other things, like yoga and weight training.
If I am am being really honest, my whole workout schedule has been off kilter lately.
I feel like I am constantly having to find a new balance between all the different areas of my life, and it seems once I feel like I have it figured out, something changes and I have to adapt again.
Our lives are always growing and shifting, and we have so we constantly have to reevaluate our time and how we are spending our time. Are we spending our time to it’s highest good in our lives. In this case, I just wasn’t motivated to train like I normally do…I might be paying for it on saturday…but that is the choice I made and I’m Ok about it,
I know that I won’t win (or even rank as high as I did last time) but I also, won’t die, so there is a lot of space between those two extremes. And I must celebrate where I am at.
Because the reality is, it is just a gift and privilege to have the body and ability to participate in an event like this, so just being out there is a win.
My goal for this race…
- Celebrate my body and it’s abilities
- Experience the atmosphere of being with hundreds of other women doing their best (so awesome)
- Supporting and cheering each other on!
- Push myself and do my best
- Spending time with friends (we are getting to the resort early today and hanging out after the race)
- To Finish
If all these things happen, I will consider myself successful. ????
Sometimes just showing up is winning.
Question: Even though it’s hard and you are not going to be good/perfect/flawless/ideal, will you show up anyway?
#yougotthis
Be well,
Sally
P.s. Here is a slide show from 2014!
