Saturday, November 8, 2008

Silverman is coming!



This is the sign I see everyday as I drive home. For the entire LAST WEEK!

Thanks, as if I could forget!


OK, Lets talk about goals.

I don’t have any!

There...next?

OK, fine, some kind of goal.


To finish!

Something MORE?
To finish on that same day!

OK…OK…my goal is to finish somewhere between 6 and 8 hours. That means if I get to the finish line in 5:50, I’m gonna sit and wait until 5:59:59.9999 rolls around. I don’t care if I’m ahead of Macca or not!

A real goal for me is to beat the clock. Last year I volunteered and was able to watch the full finishers come in. It was great to see these guys coming in, guys who had given their all. But, right before the first place full finisher came in; they switched the timing clock from displaying the half time to displaying the full time.

That meant that any half finisher would have to convert the number back to their half starting time (about 90 minutes difference). The math wasn’t a problem, it was that suddenly the half’s were anonymous. They where the lost in the excitement of the full.

Their names where mentioned but not in the same excitement of the people who had just done a FULL IRONMAN DISTANCE.

They had only done a 70.3. Hurry up and finish so we can get to the full. You had your chance and now we’re moving on.

They lost their own clock. Just another number.

I understand that it has to happen. You can’t keep the clock turned back forever; you’ve got to make room for the new, but…

My goal…beat the clock. Finish with a name. Finish.

2 comments:

S. Baboo said...

Sweet new wheels! Go get'em man, you can do it!

Calyx Meredith said...

I am so excited for you! Rock that bitch of a course today!!