With the Comrades approaching I thought it only fitting to focus on Zimbabwe’s only Ironman champion (who actually is a woman) - Paula Newby -Fraser. Why choose to focus on an Ironman champ when Comrades is an ultra distance run? Quite simply because Paula, who is known as the Queen of Kona admitted to learning much of her training techniques from the Comrades King Bruce Fordyce. It is amazing how one sport can learn so much from watching another sport and their champions.
The video below from 1995 proves just how brutal the Ironman can be, with Newby-Fraser finally having her unbeaten streak broken. The following year though she did return and once again was crowned Queen of Kona. Spine tingling stuff really. We have all been in those periods of down, but it is how we bounce back that defines us and how we choose to live our lives.
Are we prepared to just sit back and live the humdrum life or do we get back up, test the limits again and in the process learn more about ourselves? I know what I would do - what do you do?
Running together (while testing the limits) - stride for stride on a life changing ride! -- Sean Muller
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