Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy saves the world.

So like many of you, I have a fall race coming up this Sunday in Augusta, Georgia.

It will be my 12th half-iron man.

And I don't think I've ever done a race where I have trained as little as I have.

I've just missed so many workouts over the last four or five months.

And it's because of traveling, dropping kids off the college, working, filling in for people

who've had babies, you know, writing for the daily mail.

Just life can be busy and exhausting.

And because I've been doing triathlon for 30 years now before when I was trying to have fast times

and, you know, it was really challenging myself.

It was so important that I complete every single workout that my coach had prescribed.

And if I didn't, I would beat myself up and I would feel bad about it at the end of the

week. And I'm in a place right now where I don't want to feel bad. I want to feel great and

satisfied and fulfilled and give myself credit, even though this is a time in my life where I don't

have the hours and hours to train that I have in the past. But also, I don't necessarily have

the same motivation to be fast. I still love doing triathlon. I still love the half Iron Man

distance. And the last race that I did in December, I didn't look at my watch at all because I wanted

to try racing one time, not for time.

And it turned out to be the funest most pleasurable experience that I had had racing,

because it was really, really fun.

I mean, believe me, there is nothing like crossing the finish line faster than you

thought you were going to.

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