I think one of the reasons that many people don’t do things such as triathlons is that they have a fear of failure. It’s hard to get motivated at the best of times, but if on top of that you think you won’t be able to do it then for many people there just isn’t any point in trying.<\/p>\n
Even for people such as myself who do these things, there is always a fear of failure. This isn’t just in races either, even in training I might shy away from doing certain things. Silly really, especially in training as the worst that will happen is that I won’t hit my targets or it’ll hurt more than I had anticipated. No one will know about it, the failure will just be between me and my training schedule, but even then it’s no fun. We all want to achieve and do our best, so when it’s no happening we aren’t happy.<\/p>\n