What is Failure

My streak of consecutive blogs ended almost as quickly as it started.

I spoke at a university class in Orange County last night, and by the time I got home, around 11 p.m., I was bleary eyed. My morning started at 5 with a Tower 26 swim. With a baby waking up a few times in the middle of the night…I was toast.

These are all excuses though. I had a goal to blog daily through Ironman Kona, and I failed almost as quickly as I started.

Is that failure?

Or would it have been real failure had I not blogged tonight? I’m equally tired, if not more so. The same excuses remain.

Maybe failure doesn’t come through trying to succeed, but rather not trying to succeed?

How would that change your perspective during a tough moment in training or racing? When all the same excuses remain to fold mentally or physically.

Put another way, what if you’ve already blown your time goal for a race. You seemingly “failed” but how can you salvage your race to turn it back into a success?