The mind is the athlete.

I took this snippet from an article about Michael Phelps in The Weekend Australian.

I ask whether he ever doubts his own ability to achieve his exacting goals; that he might fail to prove his detractors wrong.
“If you are passionate about something, you are going to get there come what may,” he says.
“People say that I have great talent, but in my opinion excellence has nothing to do with talent. It is about what you choose to believe and how determined you are to get there. The mind is more powerful than anything.”

So true. This is what I have come to believe in triathlon.