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Triathlon things you said you would never do or never do again but did anyway

I have a very long list of hypocritical "I will never..." and these are the first few that popped into my head.

  • I will never do an Ironman.  I have done three, have a fourth in four weeks, a fifth nine weeks after that, plus six and seven next year.
  • I will never train for an Ironman during the awful Texas summer heat.  I held out on that one for awhile but I'm doing IMCan on Aug. 25th and plan on doing IMCdA and IMMT next year.
  • I will never do IMCdA because I'm not swimming in sub-60 degree water.  I'm registered for IMCdA for 2014.  I'm hoping moving the date to the last week in June will mean water temps above 60.
  • I will never pee on the bike.  I can no longer be bothered to stop 3-4 times in 112 miles.  It's a race dammit!

I think the one "never" I will hold myself to is I will never do a race at altitude.  I know that's going to have physiological effects on me that I don't want to deal with.  No IM Tahoe in my future.

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