this post is about one of my good friends in the ITU circuit a great guy who has many friends in the circuit due to his good personality, he is a former world champ, Ivan Rana. I read this in a spanish website and i wanted to share it with you all, I will translate it in english for you and please excuse me for my grammar errors english is not my first language and translating is defenetly a weakness.
here is a letter written by Ivan to one of his sponsors:
Dear Stopwatch.
Im writing you today, a week after the Dextro WCS in madrid, with the motive of this letter to get somethings clear about some topics. First of all I would like to remind you that Ive been behaving very well this season. Ive been puntual to all my training sessions. Ive been doing all my warm ups, strengh workouts, hydrating a lot, eating well and going to bed early. On top of that my splits at the track, timed BY YOU have been amazing and you have the balls my friend. I finished 41st here in Madrid! Did you lie to me ?? I always though that you were always right.
Now this is what Im going to do: I will train a lot just like old school. Yes i will climb big hills, I will have double running days and i will swim until I blow up and even if you say im going slow, i wont listen to you, i will keep training like an animal until i get to the front of the races.
Forget about saying no to an ice cream after practice, all my friends do it and the run very fast. I will not tolarate any more comments like: are you obsess, you think you can get any skinnier?
sincerely yours
ps. the track sessions, the splits saved, you can keep them or erase them from your memory
Here in the link : http://www.triatlonchannel.com/cuando-rana-encontro-a-rana/
aqui les traigo una cartita por un buen amigo del circuito pueden leerla en el link de arriba tambien.
Querido Cronómetro,
“Te extraña que te escriba hoy, una semana después de la Dextro de Madrid. El motivo de mi carta es el intentar aclarar ciertos temas. Primeramente me gustaría recordarte lo bien que me llevo portando toda esta temporada. Estoy siendo puntual en los entrenos, haciendo buenos calentamientos, ejercicios de fortalecimiento, hidratándome mucho, comiendo bien y acostándome temprano.
Por encima mis tiempos en la pista, según tú, son tremendos. Sin embargo que huevos los tuyos amigo cronómetro. Llego a Madrid y hago el 41! Me has engañado? Yo que me he hartado de presumir que siempre decías la verdad..
Lo que voy a hacer ahora es entrenar a tope, a la vieja usanza. Si, haré algún puerto en bici, doblaré a pie y nadaré hasta reventar. Y aunque digas que voy lento, no te haré caso, seguiré haciendo el animal hasta que consiga estar delante en las carreras.
Y olvídate de que diga que no a ese helado al acabar de entrenar, todos mis amigos lo hacen y corren rápido. No volveré a aguantar esos comentarios como: estas obsesionado, que te crees que vas a afinar más, ..
Sin más recibe un cordial saludo.
Las series y tiempos grabados puedes quedártelos o borrarlos de la memoria.”
Ivan and I at the Monterrey World Cup in the front
