The dark side of reaching your goals..

When I started training seriously in 2013 I ran my first 5k on a track with a time of 25 minutes and 14 seconds. While that is a good time for a lot of people I wanted to go to the Olympics is Triathlon... To achieve that goal I needed to be able to run a sub 15 minute 5k. Coming off the run! Being 6 foot 3 tall and weighing 180 pounds at the time, most of my fellow athletes thought I was insane. And the fact that I did not start running seriously until I was in my twenties did not help. But...