Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt
on december 31, 2010 at midnight i was asleep. i wanted the entire year washed away so quickly that i think i thought if i slept through the ball drop into 2011 i could sleep away the events of the preceding 365 days. it didn't work.
on december 31, 2011 at midnight i was in a very different place, hollywood to be exact, but a very different place all together more importantly.
among other things i've decided this year to get serious. serious. yes, serious about racing. i said before, in prior posts and my pre 2012 life that i wasn't going to become "that racer", "that triathlete", "that person" whatever any of those meant exactly it wasn't going to be me. however, in a very short period of time i've realized that i actually can become that person. i can reach the time goals i never set because i thought no one, including myself, ever believed it was possible. the years were more like a grand brigade of self pity, i suppose. and then i spent a few hours with a great deal of support that God sent to me, i thought about things i never thought about and realized i might actually be capable of all these things. in life AND in racing.
its true we all have to deal with reality of situations. reality of life. which perhaps then is pure irony or God's awesome sense of humor rearing its head that he brought me to a place called Reality LA. i'll let you do the googling and won't profess to any what i've come to know. but through this new "reality", new guides that i humbly call friends and new life that i'm about to get started on, the race calendar which used to include nothing but races i thought would look "good on paper" has now become my step to the greater part of whats ahead. because it's not about the past. it never was, really. it was always about the future. my future. the greater plan.
this evening i overheard a friend close a casual phone conversation with God Bless. i liked it. so to all my guides, my support, and my dream givers (you know who you are)
thank you and God Bless.
among other things i've decided this year to get serious. serious. yes, serious about racing. i said before, in prior posts and my pre 2012 life that i wasn't going to become "that racer", "that triathlete", "that person" whatever any of those meant exactly it wasn't going to be me. however, in a very short period of time i've realized that i actually can become that person. i can reach the time goals i never set because i thought no one, including myself, ever believed it was possible. the years were more like a grand brigade of self pity, i suppose. and then i spent a few hours with a great deal of support that God sent to me, i thought about things i never thought about and realized i might actually be capable of all these things. in life AND in racing.
its true we all have to deal with reality of situations. reality of life. which perhaps then is pure irony or God's awesome sense of humor rearing its head that he brought me to a place called Reality LA. i'll let you do the googling and won't profess to any what i've come to know. but through this new "reality", new guides that i humbly call friends and new life that i'm about to get started on, the race calendar which used to include nothing but races i thought would look "good on paper" has now become my step to the greater part of whats ahead. because it's not about the past. it never was, really. it was always about the future. my future. the greater plan.
this evening i overheard a friend close a casual phone conversation with God Bless. i liked it. so to all my guides, my support, and my dream givers (you know who you are)
thank you and God Bless.
