Today I wanted to quit. To not train anymore and not even show up to the race. That’s right, even though it’s an anomaly world championship that I’d earlier told myself I’d even go to watch if I didn’t have a ticket I just felt like being done today.

My Suunto app tells me that my fitness has only marginally improved over the past month despite my greatest efforts to place focus on my training and get ready. All that really means is that I’ve been trying to get more and better workouts in but life got a vote. The last Ironman distance tri I did was in Korea in 2014 and was not a WTC event. I was living away from my family and it was easy to spend HOURS each day and on the weekend swimming, biking, and running.

This go around I’ve got a few different things going on: 1-Rebalancing my life to align priorities as I believe they should be, namely God, taking care of myself, family, career. 2-Need to make sure we have income so the family can eat-working a full-time part-time job; 3-supporting the wife so she can keep her business afloat means taking my share of running the kids to where they need to go as well as taking a share of dinners and other household stuff; and then 4-comes the training for the Ironman. At the end of the day, as special as the Ironman is, it’s still a non-necessity and that puts it at the bottom of the priority list, unfortunately. thus my training schedule has taken a hit all year long.

But guess what, I made it to the gym and did my workout and got my head back in the Ironman mindset. It took some encouragement from the wife (Household 6). and a little bit of Lit (my pre-workout blend of choice, check it out) but I rolled to the gym and got after it. I told the wife about my challenge(s) with prioritization and she worked to help me make sure I get my butt to the start line.

So here’s to the 2nd to last week of less than marginal training in preparation for the Ironman event of the year if not the decade.