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Time for the second installment from my new book on Endurance Lifestyle Design. This is still part of the introduction, but begins to frame the overall purpose of the book. At the end of the day, people are successful at what they do for a variety of reasons, and genetic ability is only part of that equation.

The final week of December was full of Christmas and the usual mayhem. Having two little girls really into the season this go ’round makes it just that much more special…and that much harder to geek out on the training.

Bobbing in the waters just of Kailua-Kona, I am treading water next to 1500 of the fittest endurance athletes on the planet. I was supposed to be one of these elites, having qualified to get here, but that still hadn’t gotten through my skull. After several days of being in a dream—my dream—I was about to start the Ironman World Championships. A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike, and a 26.2 mile run, all under the watchful eye of the island goddess Pele.