Derailed Training in Perspective

I was going to post today about how after all these years of training - I still recently bonked in a swim workout and how I overtrained myself to exhaustion a couple of weeks ago. But in light of recent happenings it all just seemed so trivial.

Yesterday my brother in law survived 9 hours of heart surgery and I noted that 2 of my dear friends both have parents who are dying of cancer and another athlete/friend recently had a stroke.

So instead of belaboring my training mishaps I want to focus these works on a dedication of my race to these folks who aren't as fortunate as I to go out and push my body this weekend. I hope your thoughts will go out to them too - while I'm racing. I'll let you know how it goes...
Terri