On Pain
Avoidance of pain can cause people to make poor choices. There are those who seem to thrive on pain as they grind out mile after mile day after day for years. Seems to me those that qualified for the Ironman in Kona must willingly embrace lots of pain (and pay a lot of money for the opportunity). To me that does not look like a comfortable event. I would be the first to take an Ironman slot if I did qualify, the other side of me sez “who would want to screw up a perfectly good week in Hawaii by doing an Ironman?” I fear I would be crying like a baby and they would capture it on national TV! Some people are stuck with pain due to chronic conditions, birth defects, accidents or the effects of aging. They don’t willingly put themselves into painful events. Having conversations with the seemingly imperviable to pain can lead to some clues to the high performance of some. Comments like these are clues: · “It’s only Advil” · “If I didn’t take it, I