The Volume Game
I found this gem over at Nancy’s:
“Ironman is a volume game. Anyone that tells you otherwise is most often trying to sell you something. In an over-scheduled society there will always be a profitable niche available for those teaching how to perform with less. You can become decent (better than you ever thought possible) but you will never fully tap your potential. Not the most popular message to some but a fact of life at the top level.”
- Gordo Byrn
I just love Gordo’s simplicity and honesty. I’m not naturally gifted in any way. My VO2 numbers and what are are barely above average. But while I’m out there training, I often think of folks that aren’t training at all and those folks that may be training but not as much and it pushes me to want to do even more. The attitude that “I may not be as gifted as you, but I’m certainly going to out train you” is well… inspiring.
But alas. Those were days of old and for days to come. Back to the present. No swimming for me today, but I did manage another run. There was less aching in my knee today which I’m happy about. Hopefully, all this voodoo rehab that I’m doing is actually working. I call it voodoo because nobody really seems to know what causes one’s ITB problems, so I’m just doing every treatment in the book in hopes that one of the things I’m doing will fix me. It worked last year. No reason to think it won’t this year.
I’m still raceless in 2006. I’m sort of leaning towards maybe doing a year of short course and 1/2s. Maybe a standalone marathon? And I’m still planning to make it out to Wisconsin to watch Wil tear up the course. Still, not a registration form has been filled nor any rooms booked. I need to do something about that soon.