TRIATHLON CHOSE YOU
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Sun, 25 Mar 2007 by William Lobdell
So the Iron Kahuna is churning out 2,000 yards last night, and he got to thinking: Why did the sport of triathlon have such a hold on him?
His mind immediately flashed to John Locke, not the philosopher but one of the main characters on "Lost," the best show on television. Locke was an angry, depressed, beaten down man in a wheelchair when a plane he was flying on crashed onto a remote island.
But mysteriously, Locke found that he could walk on the island. And he was suddenly the man he always wanted to be: a tough, independent survivalist with all the confidence in the world. And while his fellow passengers try to find ways to escape the island, Locke works hard to make sure they don't find a way off the tropical rock in the middle of the Pacific. The island, he says, talks to him. It cured him. He found himself there.
For many of us, triathlon is our island. It has shaped us. Changed us. Made us the people we wanted to be. It's something
We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason, all of us. Each one of us was brought here for a reason. John Locke said it best. In the quote below, just substitute "triathlon" for "island."
Locke:
The island brought us here. This is no ordinary place, you've seen that, I know you have. But the island chose you, too. It's destiny.
