Aside from receiving a finisher time and wearing the required bib or timing chip, most athletes do not know the details that go into providing timely, successful and accurate timing for races. When timing is flawless, these are the only details you should notice other than running over the timing mats at each split of the race. Read more for tips and insights from Pro Timer, Ryan Morris, on what goes into timing a race, how to better understand your timing results and a pain point with many athletes on why your Garmin or Smart Watch may sometimes show a discrepancy from your final scored race results.

Throughout the course of any one day, we encounter countless interactions and distractions and cycle through an immeasurable amount of thoughts. These thoughts are either contributing to your highest potential or taking away from it. You have the ability to reject or accept every thought that flows into your mind. This is critical, if a toxic thought enters your mind and you do not actively choose to let it go, this information, and the attitude you feel with it, will be converted to your permanent memory storage. These thoughts then literally move to the front of the brain. Consistent focus on toxic thoughts and memories lead to stages of stress that impact health for the worse, both mentally and physically. The beauty of it is, we have the ability to change our thoughts and the attitude behind it at any point.

Doreen began training for multi-sport events in 2018. In 2019, she completed her first multi-sport event by jumping off a ferry and completing the sprint distance aquabike at Escape the Cape Triathlon and Open Water Swim. Following this event, she had plans to take bigger leaps and increase her distance by completing the Olympic aquabike the following year. Fast forward through the pandemic and cancelled races and she decided the time was right to race again in 2022.