There are some races that you simply want to win. I was having a little ponder as to why Port Mac Half Ironman is so important to me. Like nearly every race in Australia, the prize money is embarrassingly small but there was a much deeper motivation driving me that had me being unusually focused in my preperation to this event. After training with Tim Berkel, Matty White and other experienced professionals in Boulder I saw what sacrifices they would make to ensure that they got to a peak for big events. So I set about sticking to the plan my coach Grant Giles and I had established for me. I raced Maitland tri unrested taking a fair knock to the ego as Mitch smoked me in his ever largening pipe of success, maximised my recovery between sessions, turned down casual work and turned down ‘catch up dinner’ invitations from my non-triathlon friends to minimise the risk of an innocent feed turning into a viscious all nighter. Small steps for man, a giant leap for Tim Reed.
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