Run Along the Coast in La Jolla, CA - Motivational Thoughts

Photo: my dear friend and amazing athlete, Pumehana before a run in La Jolla

There is a saying, "What more could you want?" and it is often said when people get to a beautiful place, or have a great dinner, or find someone they are in love with -yet the human condition is successful because there are a whole bunch of us that are never satisfied, that always will want to seek, discover, build and learn more - a bit like a triathlete in a bike store.

I do my best to join daily the dreamers, the visionaries and the people who see things as they can be and places we can go. It it is beyond spectacular that we (mankind) looked up at the sky, saw the moon, and then said, "Let's go there." And with the materials we found here on this giant spinning rock that orbits a flaming sun, and the genius we found in our own minds, we forged the stuff that hurled humans into the sky, landed on the moon, let them take a stroll, a few pictures, some samples, make sure that there was no cheese, and verify that thee are not little people running around up there (if there were, it would have been imperative that we licensed an Ironman Race there before we came home - The Lunar Ironman, one giant leap beyond Xterra). It is likely that far more than half a billion of mankind's ideas ultimately let us fly to the moon.

There is something wonderful that happens when you start to do triathlons - you think more clearly. Clear thought comes partially from increased blood flow and partially from the clearing out of the dust from our mental and physical attic. What ideas are you considering, what Tri-spirtations do you have in your life, and for the lives of others. What is your dream, where would you land your lunar lander?

Today, I brought my video camera on my run along the La Jolla coastline so you could see what it is like here. Make the trip out here sometime for a triathlon or just a training week - it is part fantasy, and part reality.

It's amazing how, when you take time off, then start again - you can feel the difference. Today's short run along the coast felt as challenging as my mid-summer 10 and 20 mile training runs. It's time to get ready for some races. On my calender this year, pending work schedule... Honu, Canada and hopefully Hawaii, with some shorter races sprinkled in for the t-shirts.

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