Jun 1st, 2010
I’m Going to Tri
After a 1 year hiatus (having my daughter along with producing a film has kept me plenty busy!) from this blog, I’m back with a new type of adventure.
A bunch of my friends are into triathlons and my husband J runs the occasional half marathon. I can’t remember the last time I had to actually run anywhere, except now after my little one. I ran track in high school and my knees are shot. I was on the swim team in 8th grade and I sucked. As for biking, I think my bike is currently a condo community for spiders in the garage.
Somehow with all the triathlon talk amongst my friends, I felt compelled that I too must do one this year. It would be a good excuse to get back into shape, because the baby weight is proving to be more difficult to lose than I thought.
I have convinced my friend J and my sister D to do a sprint triathlon with me in September. A few other girlfriends are doing one the week after I do mine, and on of them, H, thinks that I should surely be able to do both in a week. “Sprints aren’t nearly as exhausting as you think they are”, she e-mailed. (I’m exhausted just thinking about it!) This coming from her, an über-athlete for umpteen years who has been rowing, playing soccer, climbing mountains and doing triathlons. Is that even what you call it? Doing triathlons? Running triathlons? That’s how new to this I am.
I haven’t decided if I’m going to do both yet. Right now I’m just sticking with the first one to which I have committed. I’ve told everyone I know I’m doing one, so I could hold myself accountable. The over achiever part of me wants to say yes to doing both, but the cupcake-loving part of me wants to say, hell no, one for my lifetime is enough! I haven’t started training yet. Haven’t even signed up for the race. I have a little less than 15 weeks to go.
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