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Saturday, September 15, 2007 at 9:14PM 
Well, the training and racing is over. With a 12:59 Ironman under my belt, I can now get on with my life and back to my family. It is absolutely amazing how much free time I have left over when I am not out biking 7 hours at a stretch.
I have so much to tell everybody about how this past year went. I could never get it all in a blog posting or podcast because the training regimen was too time consuming. On one hand, I gained the invaluable experience of how to train like a pro for a year. On the other, I feel like my passion for spreading the word on how to BE a happy triathlete suffered because of the lack of time to do so. My blog postings and podcast frequency dropped and I'm not too happy about that.
Well, no worries. We are back on track with living the Zen Tri lifestyle. Immediately after the race, we visited my brother and his family (with a new baby!) in Chicago for a few days. We hit the Lincoln Park Zoo and Kai terrorized the gorillas and tigers.
Back in Texas, we've been slowly unpacking and spending time getting to know each other once again. Nice big family breakfasts, Daddy taking Kai to the park, reading books... it's all on the menu. I've suffered post-race depression before, but not after this one. I missed my family and free time too much to be sad about IM MOO being over.
This morning was an absolute elation. I took my dogs for a half-hour run. What made it so great? How about no HR monitor, no stopwatch, and no distance measurement. All I had was my two doggy buddies that missed me so badly and my iPod Shuffle. The lack of monitoring equipment was liberating.
Monday, I hop in my old beater truck and drive to Santa Fe to start my new job. We will have a new location filled with interesting people and some of the best training grounds around. Shows will return to their more regular schedule and I already have three more blog postings in draft about various topics.
IM Moo was great. And now it is time to keep rolling on!
-B
Reader Comments (39)
What an exciting time for you guys! It was such a blast to get to see you again for IMWI, you really rocked the course. Thanks also for all the "balancing" thoughts this year, it was a pleasure to be on the same team as you.
You're going to be a great asset to NM. Vaya con Buddha, amigo!
PS: James took some really cool pics of you're little guy, which email do you want them to come to?
Wow man... what a journey. I can't even imagine how awesome it must feel to "re-engage" with the family! I'm sure they are just as pumped as you are! It'll be great to have you back in my ears for those long winter trainer rides.
Keep on Zen-in on!
Breathe....
Brett, congratulations on the culmination of a great year. Like everyone who listens in to ZenTri, I missed not hearing the show more often but the scarifice was for the greater good. Again, well done!
Congrats, Bret! You deserve the rest. Hope the move goes smoothly....
That is probably one of the most gratifying feelings one can have. Knowing that you went out, put the effort in, completed the experience and weren't so skewed in your focus or addicted that you went through post partum depression because you have so many other things in your life that are so much more important than a 12:59 min race. (That is one LONG run-on sentance.)Rock on!
I hope the sore muscles, joints, etc have worked themselves out.
Does this mean coach will let you start recording on your training runs and rides again?;-) It's not the same listening to Steve Runner or Nigel from running from the reaper.(Not bad, just different)
I look forward to getting back my running partner.
I've been talking to the cows lately.
Hope the move is/was seamless
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