It's easy to confuse perfection with success. For many athletes, there's a constant allure that the more perfect you are with your training and diet - if you do everything "right" - success will come your way. If you ask any "successful" athlete about his/her road to success, there's a 99% chance that he/she will tell you that true success involves taking risks and it also involves failure. The best part about failing is that it gives you an opportunity to learn from the given situation and not being perfect means that you are always learning and there is room for improvement. In looking back at our 2017 racing season, Karel and I both feel that it was a very successful season of racing. While there were some less than ideal situations that we faced before and on race day, we have learned all too well that you don't have to have a perfect race for it to be a successful race. With the 2018 triathlon racing season awaiting us, I thought i...
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