Well, I have another first on this IRONMAN journey. Yep, I changed my own tire. I didn’t get a flat, but I sat in the garage the past two nights with David Perry patiently training me on how to change my front and my back tires. Tonight I did it completely by myself. Probably doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it was completely possible that I would have been born and died without ever doing this, so kind of a big deal for me.
When you know you are going to be fighting cutoffs on the bike, a flat could be the difference between becoming an IRONMAN and NOT. I refuse to let a flat wreck this journey, so I’m going to sit in my garage at least 4 times a week for the next 5 weeks and get so frickin’ fast at changing my tire that if it happens on race day, it won’t even be an issue. My heart rate won’t even go up. Because I will be utterly prepared to calmly handle it.
That’s what all this training is about. Preparing myself for what is going to happen on race day. And as the amazingly talented Gemma Hollis told me yesterday “you don’t become an IRONMAN on the day, the day is just a celebration of what you are doing now…..” 38 more days to mentally and physically prepare myself to get to the celebration.
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