This morning my computer screwed up and I lost 13,000 images that I had on my computer. Yes, 13,000 images, and yes, I did take most of those pictures. Some of the pictures, that I didn't take, go back to when my grandparents were young. Now, normally I'd be freaking, but I have an Apple Time Capsule. A time capsule is Apple's version of a back up system. Today it paid for itself in spades.It wasn't easy, but over a 6 hour period and four separate calls to Apple, I was finally able to retrieve all the images. As the images were being transferred, I was working on learning more about Internet marketing tools. Before I knew it, it was 7:30 pm, 6 hours just flew by. The kids were laughing, screaming, fooling around and I hardly noticed, I was too focused. Last night was the same, I was doing research on the web and when I looked up it was midnight. I'm normally in bed by 11 pm.
If it was not for triathlons I'd have obsessively worked all night, which is not a good thing. The only thing that pulled me away from my computer was knowing I had to do my swim before the pool closed. As I drove to the pool my mind was racing with all the possibilities of how I can grow our business on the net. The time in the pool went by quickly because I couldn't turn my mind off. I even had a 1:39 for 100 meters because I was so pumped about what I learnt was possible I didn't even feel the pain. Eventually, thankfully, by the end of the swim I was starting to get back to normal.
Many people ask me how I find the time to train so much. After the past couple of days, and as counter intuitive as it sounds, I realize I'd be an obsessive, unbalanced, and an out of shape basket case if I didn't train so much.
Tempo Swim - 1:03:15 / 3000 meters
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Glad to hear that Time Capsule worked out for you. I don't have that yet, but more and more I think I should shell out for Leopard (perhaps Snow Leopard now), Time Capsule and the bigger Airport router. If only money were no object....
As for finding time to train, I see it more as establishing the proper priorities in life. If you believe it's important, you find the time easily. Unfortunately, in North America at least, work takes on too high a priority for most people.
Keep it up! You're inspiring me! (Seriously - but I gotta pull my run up before I start aiming at AG wins!)
Yeah, it felt good that I had the foresight to buy the timecapsule. I didn't want to because of the cost, but I keep thinking of that Mastercard Priceless commercial.
I just ordered Snow Leopard. It sounds really good and will free up a lot of my hard drive, it cuts the system applications to have the file size.
Your also right about us needing to make it a priority. My toughest was the first year getting into the grove.
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