And so my hope is to always be a source of perspective - positive, but also human - on how to view the world and our role in it. Take it or leave it. If you’re willing to dig in, you will find that you always know the answer and you’re always right.

When it comes to situations like what we are facing these days, when you are able to go through these new and different circumstances and use it as a opportunity to process emotion, you will come out on the other side a stronger person AND athlete.

In training we practice consistency. Consistently building resiliency in the body to withstand a high performance effort. And now life is giving us the biggest opportunity to build consistency and resiliency another way.

If you look around a race course you’ll notice that triathlon draws in a certain type of person, especially long course triathlon.

We’re eager and committed.

Hard working and driven.

Focused and relentless in the pursuit.

Most of us exemplify these qualities in many other areas of our lives. And at first glance these qualities scream high-performing goal achiever.

So if these are character traits we embody, why do we quit when things get hard?

Remember: who you are as a triathlete, while racing, matters.

And I don’t mean who you are in the sense of where you come from, how old you are or how nice your bike is. What I mean is who you really are…to yourself.

If someone were to walk up to you in transition moments before heading to the swim start and ask, “what kind of racer are you?” How would you answer? Are you confident? Aggressive? Calm? Certain? Nervous? Anxious? Excited?