Not to mention the twice-a-day doctor visits for shots to keep me out of the hospital. I was so ill that when an ex-girlfriend came to visit me I was so sickly looking she burst into tears at the sight of me. The rationale is simple. Aim so high that failure is a likely result.
I believe this teaches you to deal with adversity.
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I believe it teaches you humility. The reason to aim sky high is that even if you miss, you are still likely to achieve more than you had originally planned.
This creates an interesting problem for many. Firstly, the epic nature of their goal may scare the crap out of them.
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When my girlfriend and I set her the goal of a half Ironman a few years ago she had never swum in open water, let alone swum 1. To begin with, she was timid and reluctant to swim. But once she came to grips with how she could improve, which was as simple as looking at the training plan and seeing how far she would be swimming by race day, she started attacking training with gusto.
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To get to that bigger goal, we needed some smaller goals, though. These smaller goals helped her wrap her head around the bigger goal even better.
She entered a smaller triathlon that had a swim of only m in length - less than half what she would need to swim later. She was a bit freaked out by having other swimmers around her, by how dark the water was, and by not being able to see the bottom, which are all common issues for first time competitors. But once she got through it, she realized what she needed to work on, and this made her ability to easily visualize accomplishing the bigger goal.
One of the things that I believe has allowed me to accomplish a lot has always been my acceptance of failure.
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But social media is a double-edged blade. The same technology that allows you to share content with friends instantly allows them to see that you took a long time to get out of the swim in a triathlon or fell back through half the field on the run. And when those moments happen - and they will, because everyone has a bad day - be man enough to admit you had a bad day.
On anything with even the slightest incline I was forced to walk, as I had nothing left to give uphill. My pace nearly doubled and I lost over an hour, blowing my marathon time out to five hours.
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But thanks to Ironman Tracker everyone in the world could see that, leaving me with only one option - being honest about how hard it was, how underprepared I was, and how stupid it was to try to do an Ironman as your second triathlon. Collins went on to say a previous boyfriend who was Irish was "fantastic in bed", but wouldn't divulge details of his identity. That's why I have such a love for the Irish.
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