The web is saturated with blogs. No one will read this I'm sure. I'm not even sure I want anyone too. I'm fairly certain my husband will kill me when he finds out. Not Literally...Do Not Call The Police.
He is just a very private person, does not have Facebook or anything, and it took him forever to get comfortable with the fact that I even had one. So I will not use his name or my kids names for now. I will come up with some sort of nickname for them. Hopefully something that will not be too annoying to type over and over and over again.
I'm just....proud of what I've done and I still have places to go, and I've got experiences to share on all different topics and sometimes I feel like you can over saturate people in real life with the talk talk talk talk talk about these things. So i'll try writing about it. To strangers.
Plus about a month and a half ago I did something crazy. I signed up for a sprint triathlon...and it's in 2 weeks from now. I have a co-worker who is kind of an enabler when it comes to this exercise crap.
Then I started furiously googling, because I knew nothing. I HAD been a competitive swimmer, but hadn't swam a lap in at least 7 years. I owned a 10-speed road bike, with flat tires, that I got when I was 10 years old. She's a pink Peugeot. But yep, hadn't ridden that beauty in at least 10 years.
The one thing I had been doing though was running. Yes, I did start C25k and find at least 10 damn minutes a day, but it was a process and it did not happen magically over night. I will get back to that story in my next post and my oh so embarrassing before photos.
I owe a lot of inspiration to Swim Bike Mom right now with even remotely thinking I can do this with out dying. I found her pretty early in my google searching. She is way younger than me, and I think has a bit more disposable income, lol, but she gets it. She gets the really important stuff I mean, the trying to balance it all..... family and work, and sanity, and the voices in your head that are occasionally cheering you on, but usually being really negative and mean and encouraging you to sit on the couch with pizza.
Her book is awesome.
So I've gotten in the pool and swam at least twice a week, including some open water swims. I took my bike in and got new tires, brakes, and saddle and I've ridden up to a 21 mile ride and done one solid bike/run brick session of 14.3/2.2 miles. On days I swim, I bike to the pool, swim, shower, then bike to work, then bike home at the end of the day. That's almost like a brick.
Shut up. It is.
I've also continued running and strength training. I don't think I'll be winning any medals, and I doubt I'll be setting any kind of records, but I will be finishing.
And I'm super excited to call myself a triathlete because I have an even crazier goal in mind.
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