Endurance Multisport - West - Boulder Mt Race Rpt

[BIG]

Boulder Mountain is done or maybe I am done with Boulder Mountain. My race did not go as I wanted and to say I am disappointed is an understatement. I went faster than last year – 4 minutes but it is far short of what I am hoped. My time was 1:40 which in the scheme of things ….sucks ass. In a nutshell, I suck 4 minutes less than last years performance which sucked also. To put it into triathlon language – I did a half- ironman in 6:15 last year and followed it up with a 6:05 this year. Either time sucks. (No offense to anyone who is in the time range). My racing is about my racing. Time does not transfer between individuals. I create my own measuring stick. It is me against me and I don’t particularly like either person. I want others to do well but, in the end, I don’t have to live with their time and they do not have to live with mine. 6:05 is terrific if you are comfortable with it. I am not remotely comfortable with 1:40 at Boulder Mountain. I am about 3 hrs south of McMurdo with respect to being remote. If you don’t know about McMurdo…Google it. Today is not a day of free answers.

I own 1:40.

I am not someone who makes excuses. The course is the same length and the clock is the clock and your time is your time. Excuses are people’s mental way of rationalizing disappointment….because of this or that…I had a cramp, I didn’t eat right, I had sand in my labia, whatever… F that. In the end, your time is the same and does not get better based on some silly ass excuses you can think up. “Give it time”....whoever says this is simply stalling to come up with a better excuse on why they did not get it done. After the “give it time” is up and you have wrapped the piece of shit performance up in a pretty pink package with a bow.….your race time does not get better.

After training for this race for 10 months and sucking a fat one, I need to think more about time. Time. Time is the key to everything. I can not train like a maniac and commit large quantities of time when I am not getting a reward. It is not a matter of giving up…it is a matter of how to best utilize my training time. It is this time utilization that I need to dice out. Committing tons of time and not reaping a stitch of reward is nonsense in my mind. I committed a large amount of time in both the summer and winter to skiing. I can do other things which will produce results and have the same level of fitness.

Someone needs to pay for this and I know who it is…. ME.

[IronLucha]

Great report!! I love the brutally honest nature of your point of view on times. We are not all the same and have different standards for ourselves. I wrote a similar report when I just missed qualifying for the Boston Marathon.