You’re in the midst of training, and the last thing in the world you want to do is run another step or swim another stroke.
Dana McCorquodale
Dana’s been busy this month. She swam a 10-mile pool swim for charity at the downtown YMCA, but she also had surgery to correct the Iliotibial band syndrome-commonly called IT band syndrome-in her knee. She says her time in recovery will, “allow me to heal, work on my swimming and lift weights until my knee is healed. Then hopefully, I will be able to run pain free. I am concerned that I will be running the marathon in pain. I overcome it by knowing that I have a high pain threshold and will be able to run through the pain.”
And if anyone even suggests you sit on another damn bicycle seat, you’re seriously going to lose it.
This is the point at which local triathlete coach Andy Sweet knows he must ask a very important question: Do you really want to do this?
It seems like a no-brainer. Of course, you want to do this. You spent $700 to sign up for Ironman Chattanooga. You’ve been working toward that finish line for the past several months. You’re in it to win it, or at least to finish. Right?