Read this!

If you want to know why I did the Ironman this year - why I put myself through the 1000s of miles of training and the days of hard work read the introduction to this book - Tim Carlson has summed up superbly well exactly what drove me to do an Ironman - sure I am a little OCD and certainly a type A personality but it is more than that - read it and you will understand!

http://www.velopress.com/sample/sample_17HG.pdf

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