A year seems like a long time...
...but it runs by in a blur.
That's what I was thinking as I drove away from Penticton, British Columbia, Canada last Tuesday. Having just signed up for Ironman Canada 2012, my third Ironman but first at Penticton, I caught myself having the "plenty of time until that rolls around" thoughts. Nice try, rookie. I knew better.
Sure, a year is 365 days, 52 weeks, 8760 hours. It IS a long time.
But then it happens. Suddenly it's 6 months away. Then 3 months. Then 3 weeks.
Then it's tomorrow.
Then I am standing on the beach wondering what happened to that year since I stood outside of a dirty white tent next to a serene Lake Okanogan thinking this was a good idea.
Here we go.
...and that year contains so many more than that final 140.6 miles...it's so much about THAT journey as much as the journey in the final day.
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