You don’t have to be an athlete to participate in triathlon. That’s the beauty of it. As long as your goal is to finish and have fun, everyone can give tri a try.

If you are beginner and starting to get overwhelmed with the task ahead, let it go. As long as you are giving it a real effort and training, you’ll probably do a lot better than you ever thought.

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I love this quote by champion triathlete Natascha Badmann of Switzerland. She has won the Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Hawaii in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005.  Badmann, who by the way, is a married social worker with a daughter, trains up to 35 hours a week. Three times a year she goes to the Canary Islands to train where she has to deal with the heat and fatigue to prepare herself for Hawaii.

“Everyone who does a triathlon comes to that place where the inner voice says, Why don’t you stop? You’re tired,” says Badmann. “If you realize it’s all in your mind, then you can try to manage it. I wasn’t born that way I work at it every day.”

If you’ve ever seen her race, you can see she has a positive, friendly attitude. But it helps me to know that even top triathletes work on the mindset too.

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