Multitasking

2/6/10

            One thing I love about my life is the adversity it contains.  I have always said I want to make the most of my life and do a lot of things.  Well, right now in my life, I am doing a lot of things.  I am working full time, and I am doing well at that. I am training 25-35 hours a week, and I am doing well at that.  I am constantly hunting for supporters to get on the Lubester band wagon.   I am remaining social and hanging out with my friends, and I am trying to find time to recover, eat, and sleep properly.

            The days fly by in my life and it seems as if the year has just begun, BUT IT’S MID FEBRUARY ALREADY!  I am making huge gains in the pool, on the bike, in the run, and I am getting strong.  But let’s break down this adversity thing a little more.  As triathletes, we need to master three sports.  We need to balance our time between training for three sports, work, family, friends, etc.  This not only makes us better athletes, but I believe it makes us much better as individuals.  Our minds, although extremely messed up due to our love of torture, are better able to deal with adversity, stress, and mental obstacles than the non triathletes.  I am in no way saying we are better than anyone, but I think our lifestyle better prepares us for real world challenges. 

I have read that divorce rates of people from Midwestern states are less due to their ever changing weather.  The weather added a diversity that forced the individuals to deal with change, this prepared them for real life and they could deal with adversity better.  I believe the same is true for triathletes.

What stimulated this thought was my crazy life I depicted at the beginning of this article.  Like I said, I am nonstop right now.  From 6:00am until 8:30pm, I do not sit down, but if I am doing well at my endeavors, why change?  I was in the post office today at 2:30pm and I saw a kid, probably 25 years old, still wearing his pj’s, his hair was a mess, he had a bed head you only read about in fairy tales, and he was being quite cranky.  This made me think of all of the things I had done thus far on this rainy Saturday.  I woke up, enjoyed some coffee with Cortney, and Chris Schauble and the Channel 4 news team, went out and ran 16 miles under an amazing sky, ran into my friend Steven P, packed up for Tuscon, and now was picking up my new bike at the post office.  I believe to each is own and what ever makes you happy is what you should do.  So, if Sleepy wanted to sleep all day and this made him happy, I am glad he did it.  But we only live once and we need to LIVE our lives.  I have said this plenty of times in previous blogs, but I can’t say it enough.  Get out and “Just Do It.”

OK, I just got off course regarding the topic of this blog, multitasking.  In the first paragraph I said I was doing well at work.  My job consists of me driving around and stopping in doctors offices all day.  I work at a rapid rate and I am constantly spreading the word of my five different products.  I have no trouble talking about, and selling each product in every call.  I am also pretty good at relating to all of my different doctors.  They are all different and I have to find a way to relate to all of them.  I attribute my success at work to my competitive nature and my triathlon training.  I am good at dealing with diverse situations and molding them to my benefit.

Adversity, diversity, multitasking, whatever; they are all traits you acquire and hone by training for triathlons.  So when you are suffering through training, racing the kids to school, trying to fit in a swim at lunch, get the quarterly reports done, and have dinner on the table by 7:00, remember you owe a lot of the ability to do that to triathlons.  Stick with it, and remember; when the going gets tough just think what you are doing for your character.  RACE HARD!

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