Opening Day 2008 for the Timber Rattlers is April 3. That is 66 days from today. This off-season, the countdown will be based on books. Each day between now and Opening Day 2008, I will pick a random book out of my library and excerpt a passage off the page number corresponding with the number of days remaining to the first pitch of the new season. I will try not to repeat a book during the countdown.
Today’s book is Triathlon Training by Michael Finch. This is from Chapter 4, Tackling Your Training.
The question is, how do triathletes keep up interest levels in such strenuous activity? The secret is to listen to any of the world’s most successful sportsmen and women – almost all of them will tell you that the secret to their success is the continuing enjoyment of their particular sport. Even in sports that offer their stars huge financial returns, people like golfer Tiger Woods, for example, attribute their success to a love of the sport rather than the financial rewards.
Put today’s excerpt in a baseball context.
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