So I asked “When did you first want to do the Molokai Surf Ski Marathon anyway?”
His reply “Since about 1989” WT…?
So here we are, 26 years later planning the race of a lifetime – a 52 km race across the Kaiwi Channel from Molokai to Oahu.
Stubbsy (in the yellow vest) at the recent Freycinet Challenge.
Anyone remember the movie “City Slickers” when the wifey tells her husband Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) to go on a cattle drive and “go and find your smile.” Great movie! It was much the same for us when about six months ago I said to Stubbsy “you need a goal. You need something to work towards. What is it YOU want to do? Find a goal and make it happen…”
True story, I know what you’re thinking…I am an amazing wife!
So it was with this the Molokai flame has been re-ignited. It is early stages in the planning process but together we are working on periodising the training and nutrition for the next 8 months. This will guarantee when Stubbsy gets to race day the 4-5hour paddle in god knows what conditions he will leave nothing to chance.
There is something extremely empowering when a bucket list item becomes a goal. Making that goal known to everyone is unnerving but all about accountability. That shouts out commitment!
At 45 years of age he’s racing well against those many years younger and has definitely got all that determination back.
The fitness, the strength, the heat, the cramping, the mind games…the next 8 months will be fun!
