Overcoming Self-Sabotage in Life and Business

But one of the things that Nick does often is he, um, messes up his nutrition and hydration for the races.

Here's what I mean.

We did the half-marathon.

Um, we were both on a similar pace for most of it, and then about 13 kilometers in, it's a 21-kilometer race, um, he bonked.

He just couldn't lift his legs, his energy sources got depleted, et cetera, and he had to walk.

I kept running.

I did a sub-two-hour half-marathon.

He came in, uh, slower than his previous best.

And, and, and in, in analysis, what happened, 100% didn't, um, have the right nutrition during the run, didn't hydrate properly, et cetera.

Half Ironman, 70.3, a month, uh, and a half later, same thing happens.

You know, does the swim, does the bike, and then on the run totally falls apart.

Why? He did not plan his nutrition, did not plan his hydration.

You know, lessons learned, you would think.

And then we go to the half, or to the full marathon that just happened on Saturday, and we all start.

And for the first half, Nick was pretty much on pace with Matteo and I, and, um, and then it just came apart, and he said he got, uh, uh, pain in his side and this and that.

And, uh, he ended up doing it in, like, 4:30-something, about 15 minutes behind me, okay? And this is somebody, the week or two, two weeks prior, we did a Saturday training run, a long run, and his heart fitness was better than mine on that day.

So all things being equal on that day, if he would've ran the way he ran, I think it was a 17K run, he should've been near to my finish time.

Here's what's happening, okay? And, and I don't even know if he truly knows this, but in business, entrepreneurs, you may be inadvertently self-sabotaging your success.