There are a lot of clever sayings going around like “Spend it wisely, you only have one chance to spend it”, “He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day” and something about cutting your cloth carefully to make sure it goes the distance. All of these clever sayings have more meaning when you get a bit older.
Younger athletes can smash themselves in training and bounce back to do it again the next day. Even younger athletes are dealing with a finite resource. I have found that athletes …

It really doesn’t matter what field of work or sport we’re involved in. We will very often have to make a choice between doing what we feel is best, or doing that which will gain most popularity. It seems that teenagers are the age group where this dilema is faced most often.
It’s been a long time since I was a teenager, but I can still remember making decisions which were really wrong at the time, just so that I remained popular in my peer group. Being popular is pretty important …

I’ve heard about this phenomenon for 25yrs. When I first came back from Hawaii in 86, one of my brother’s mates asked him, how I was going with “post Ironman depression”. When my brother told me, I thought “what in the hell is that?” Since then the subject has come up over the years.
Seriously, when I came back from Kona in 86, I had two businesses to run, a family to raise. I didn’t have time for “post Ironman depression”. I was too busy.
Being busy with other things in your …