“I had eight months to train so I went to work on planning out my regimen. I was already going to the gym every weekday so it would be easy to spend more time on running/swimming/biking than on lifting, right? I planned it out, had it all ready to go. And never went to the gym again.” What’s amazing about that is the goal wrecked what he was already doing. Before that massive goal showed up, he was consistently going to the gym. Not only did he not do the race, he quit everything that was already in motion. That’s how powerfully destructive a wrong-sized goal is.
