1 août 2018

Triathlon: Running for your life


There is an article written in the ITU’s page reporting a Mexican triathlete caught using performance enhancing drugs.  Doping points out to the real issue we encounter in most of the athletes:  “they are running for their life.”  I tell team members that “we are running for our life” daily; going to work and perform the best we can to continue in the game.  Being a professional takes time and training so “running for our life” does not become "running for our life" literally.  To focus in our work we have to know that “we are running for our life” daily.  We have to believe that this is our situation and more importantly in a Third World Country.  Our society takes this problem lightly and Mexican triathletes end up using performance enhancing drugs to stay alive.  Our society takes training lightly and at the end “running for our life” is literally “running for our life.”  We hammer the concept of “running for your life” in our team to improve training; economical, physical and mental freedom depends on how focused and devoted we are to what we do daily; if we know and understand that we are running for our life we should take training more seriously.  It is not the way the FMTRI and related teams take it.

A phrase we use with team members is: “you need to buy your freedom.”  We are in this stage since the beginning of our days.  LeBron James –talking about athletes,- finally reached that point of freedom.  It takes time and commitment “to buy our freedom.”


Our sport centers are not like LeBron’s school.  CNAR is the opposite.

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