A question a lot of people ask me is how do I find the time to train for an event like the Ironman as well as do all the other things that life throws and demands of us. This is perhaps the hardest challenge of them all. The pressure of getting kids to school, running a business and being away from home a lot adds up to a lot of hours in the day. But think about it for a second, of all those hours being chewed up by daily activities, are they all necessary? Granted, going to work, doing the school run etc are absolutely necessary. But how about the TV, surfing the net and generally doing those tasks which are just eating up time and not producing anything? Well for me it is those periods that I target and use for my training. So it is not unusual (there's a song in there somewhere) to find me out running late at night or early in the morning to get my training in. If I am away living out of a suitcase, there is always room in the case for my trainers and I actually find going for a run in a new city or town is a great way of getting your bearings.
Next time you find yourself wishing you had more time, stop and think. How many of the 24 hours available to me am I actually using in a productive way? Time is the one thing that we all have the same amount of, regardless of age, race, position or wealth. One of my all time heroes, Lance Armstrong, seven times winner of the Tour de France lives by the maxim 'Carpe Diem' - Seize the Day. If anyone knows how precious time is, it is this cancer surviving cycling legend.
Be your own legend and cheat time. Hold fire on that e-mail or TV and go for a walk...or a Double Iron triathlon!!
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