Macca's I'm here to win

Last week I read Macca's I'm Here To Win. Talk about a page turner. I'm not a fast reader but the fact that I couldn't put it down meant that I read it cover to cover in less than two days.

One of the things that I really loved was the fact that Chris grew up in Sydney (my home town), discovered triathlon and ironman by watching the same Wide World of Sports broadcast of Kona and started out racing some of the same races I raced in as a kid. I spent a lot of the early parts of the book traveling down memory lane. The book is also full of some great insight into some of the things that has made Chris great.

But what if

The thing that hit home to me the most was the thought of what could have been. The couple of seasons that I really got into triathlons at the end of high school was at a point where I had left athletics a year or so earlier, I didn't have a coach or any regular endurance training and my only serious sport I focused on was hockey in the winter. I loved triathlons and at one point joined a swim squad for a few weeks. The thing was that I didn't really have a clue of what I was meant to do to train properly. Ultimately I loved music more and so followed that dream instead.

Don't get me wrong, I love the twist and turns my life has taken but I can't help wonder what if...