noattentionspan

In tracking what people type into google to find me, I came across “Dealing with self centered triathlete” in the list (May 3, 2007).

Sure enough, looking at that entry in google down around the third or fourth entry noattentionspan.com shows up.

This amuses me, clearly google knows me oh so well.

Of course, it is grabbing that out of context, but it’s still funny.

Now, that being said, to the person who’s looking for information on dealing with self centered triathletes…

Good luck with that.

Seriously though, I think the nature of triathlon is that you really depend on yourself when you are out there, and it takes being selfish with your time to do well. The training can be very time consuming and difficult and if you let others control your schedule, you’ll never get it all in. That being said, if people get out of hand with it, talk to them directly. Let them know you don’t want to put up with it.

Just my .02.

You’d be surprised how for a ’solo’ event us athletes (and I only loosely count myself as one of that group) need the people around us. I’d be bloody lost for a week if I didn’t have my wife and kids to rely on when it comes to getting things done and helping out around the house while I’m on a 2 hour swim and 2 hour run Sunday mornings.

S