“You can keep going and your legs might hurt for a week, or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime” Mark Allen
Welcome to the Sensory Strides podcast. Observations of the world through activity, reading, listening, and everything else.
I want to give a shout out to Lindsay Hiken of the age groupie podcast. She completed Iron Man Santa Rosa in May this year with a half hour to spare! I appreciate her summary of her race as it really gave me ideas for the future, made me feel ‘normal’ since I race with a standard road bike, and balanced reality and encouragement. http://agegroupie.libsyn.com/ep-26-ironman-santa-rosa-race-report
I loved how she shared her why for racing IronMan and how that came full circle during her IronMan race.
I am so on board with the worry about the GI issues. That is always my first priority the last few days before the race.
While listening to Lindsay, I thought back on my first tri. Perhaps one of the issues I had was riding the bike I had bought in high school, thirty years before.
I was also excited to know that see is a run /walk person when need be. I’ve decided that my 50k is going to be run /walk – I just can’t force my body to train that hard for that long. Especially since my run pace and walk pace are fairly close. I will get all the miles in, just with less impact on the joints.
The part about being alone on the course after dark was scary. I’m not sure how I would feel about that. Especially in the environment she described.
I laughed out loud when she talked about not wanting to every get on her bike again after the race. I still have touched mine since August.
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