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“Did Not Finish”
I never thought I would see these letters beside my name, or at least not without a good reason. I wish I could say it was planned like this, or that my running injury was flaring up, but truth is, I just gave up and did not want to feel the pain of the run after passing the whole day worrying about my decision to race despite the nagging injury.
Had a really bad swim, 2009 all over again, lots of sections of “side strokes”, coming out of the water out of breath and exhausted about 15th of my wave.
Beginning of the bike was real rough, power numbers not anywhere near where they should have been, and heart rate much higher than I have ever seen on wheels. The whole time I was just thinking I did not want to run, the mind finding a 1000 reasons why I shold not run, the injury and potential effect on my second half of the season being the obvious one. Jumped off the bike in 2nd overall position, did my transition, ran for 100m and just gave up - walked to the timing tent to surrender my chip 
Good thing is that I had a hard swim and bike training session in race situation, and I did not aggravate my injury.
Bad thing is that I feel like a failure, fearing that I do not have the drive or will anymore.
Supposed to race Sunday, and I feel like I should do it.
I need to rebound quickly otherwise I’ll be weeks feeling like shit.
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