UltraPossible: New Challenges!

I love how life can keep you on your toes and push you into new things, things that if given the chance you would talk yourself out of. This past weekend I was able to witness several of my athletes throw a blanket over the voices...the ones that would tell them they were crazy or that they couldn't possibly finish an Olympic distance triathlon...they rose to the challenge and accomplished great things. I get goosebumps thinking about how they faced the unknown distance and every single one of them crossed the finish line with a huge smile on their faces!

So with all of them in mind, I forced myself to click the "register" button for my first 70.3 race. I had been "persuaded" by two lovely ladies to do my first Half Ironman distance race a couple of weeks back, however, I wasn't sure if I really wanted to do it...I have done Ironman and Ultraman and I am quite comfortable at the Olympic distance these days....but after watching so many of my athletes face the unknown this weekend I knew that I had to follow their lead. Time to step outside of comfortable and do something I haven't done before. I have that nervous excitement, the slight dread, the "what have I done" feeling, but at the same time I am pumped for a new challenge. SV is going to be right there with me and it is great to know that we are going to go through this together. Looking forward to long training days and of course beers at the end! (SC and JC get your butts registered!!)