Podcast - Sufferfest Interview and Bike Fit

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The interviews continue, this time with the creator of the awesome Sufferfest cycling training videos, David McQuillen.

I have been using the videos to train for an 85 mile mountain bike race in January, and they rock!  Each is a full hour of proper warm up, cool down, and tons of hammering in between.  You really feel like you're in the middle of the action because the footage is from other bikes or pace motorcycles.

After that, I throw in a good bit of what I'm beginning to call "The Training Diaries", recordings immediately after workouts.  You get a great sense of the highs and lows of training at the Ironman level of the endurance spectrum.

The show finishes out with an interview with a bike fitter at Bicycle Sport Shop in Austin, TX.  He fixed a lot of my issues and is prepping me for a custom bike being built by True North in Canada.

Plug in and enjoy the show!

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Fight Club Training Video Giveaway!

I'll be giving away three free downloads of The Sufferfest's latest cycling training video, "Fight Club" over the next three days.  Here's how - 

• I will ask a cycling trivia question this Monday at Noon Central on Twitter.
• First person to reply with the correct answer ON TWITTER wins. (www.twitter.com/zentriathlon)
• We will repeat again on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Sufferfest Setup

Random Swimming Thought

Swimming is destiny.  

First you won't be able to run anymore,  Then you won't be able to bike.  

All that's left is floating in the ether like an amoeba when you're eighty-eight.

Better start practicing now.  Especially the yelling at people to get out of your lane part.  That will be the best.  :)

Throw out the "If Only."

People often get stuck not able to do what they want today because they are stuck in the past.  If you find yourself repeating the "If only" phrase a lot, this is something you could drop.  Here are some examples...

• If only I was younger.
• If only I started training earlier.
• If only I had a different job.
• If only I had a different bike.
• If only I was skinnier.

You see that the list can go on and on.  The real problem is that you're wasting time now by trying to change the past by wishing for a different one in your mind.  You can't change the past.  It's not only impossible, but depressing!  Just hang out with somebody who won't quit talking about bad stuff long ago and see how much fun that is.

Once you simply accept the past (because there really is no other reality) you've just opened up a lot of time and energy to do something in the Now.

Watch yourself and see if you're saying "If only..."  If you are, you've just found a huge opportunity to make a great improvement in your life!